§2312 Contingency Contracting Corps

Summary

Creates a Government-wide Contingency Contracting Corps to send trained contract workers where they are needed in emergencies, disasters, or contingency operations. Corps — the new group of federal contract specialists and acquisition staff. The Administrator of General Services must set up the Corps under rules from the Office of Management and Budget and after talking with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security. Corps members must be ready to deploy inside or outside the continental United States to support procurements that agency heads decide are for contingency operations (as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(a)(13)) or for emergencies or major disasters (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 5122). Joining is voluntary and open to federal employees and military members in the federal acquisition workforce. GSA may set training and education rules, paid from the acquisition workforce training fund (sec. 1703(i)). Pay stays with the member’s employer or military service. The OMB Director decides deployments when an agency asks and the employing agency agrees. The Secretary of Defense may still deploy Department of Defense personnel under 10 U.S.C. 101(a)(13). GSA must send an annual report by September 30 each fiscal year to four Congressional committees listing the number of members, total program cost, number of deployments, and member performance.