§3605 Program to encourage innovative solutions to enhance electronic Government services and processes

Summary

The Administrator must create and promote a governmentwide program that gets contractors to offer new and better ways to improve electronic government services and processes. Under this program, the Administrator, working with the Council and the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, must ask for unique and innovative solution proposals. The Administrator must form a multiagency technical assistance team made of agency employees with scientific or technical expertise to review proposals. The team must check each proposal’s feasibility, technical merits, and likely cost, and send the proposal plus its review back to the Administrator. The team cannot review proposals tied to a current procurement or specific agency need. The Administrator may recommend promising proposals for funding from the E-Government Fund (see section 3604) or send them to the agency whose mission fits the proposal.