Prior to Thanksgiving, the president signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2016 (NDAA Bill), which includes several AGC-backed federal procurement reform provisions that will help prevent individual surety fraud, allow joint ventures to submit individual businesses’ relevant past performance evaluations as part of their proposals—not merely the relevant past performance of the joint venture itself—and fix a recent court decision that would have required small business construction contractors to purchase all their materials and supplies from other small businesses.
AGC testified in support of these reforms earlier this year before the House Small Business Committee. AGC has also lead a coalition of 15 national construction trade associations in an effort to push such construction procurement reforms through Congress. The president vetoed a similar bill just several weeks ago. Compared to the vetoed version of the bill, this NDAA bill has slightly lower levels of spending for Department of Defense programs.
For more information, please contact Jimmy Christianson at christiansonj@agc.org or 703-837-5325.