§379b Consolidated administrative and laboratory facility

Summary

The Secretary must work with the General Services Administration to hire people to design, build, and run one combined FDA administrative and laboratory facility. The Secretary must ask for proposals and favor options that save the federal government money and that let the project use donated land, federally owned property, or lease‑purchase deals. A contract can only be made if it saves the government money over the life of the contract compared with the government purchase price, including borrowing by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary may accept gifts of services or property for buildings and land. Congress authorized $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1991 and whatever sums are needed after that, available until spent.