ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ADVOCATES FOR COMPETITION.

SEC. 8303. ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ADVOCATES FOR COMPETITION. (a) Responsibilities of the Advocate for Competition.— Section 20(c) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 418(c)) is amended to read as follows: “(c) The advocate for competition for each procuring activity shall be responsible for promoting full and open competition, promoting the acquisition of commercial items, and challenging barriers to such acquisition, including such barriers as unnecessarily restrictive statements of need, unnecessarily detailed specifications, and unnecessarily burdensome contract clauses.”. (b) Repeal of Superseded Provision.— Section 28 of such Act (41 U.S.C. 424) is repealed.