§2312 Contingency Contracting Corps

Summary

Creates a government-wide Contingency Contracting Corps run by the Administrator of General Services under rules from the Office of Management and Budget, with input from the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security. Members must be ready to deploy for emergencies, major disasters, or contingency operations inside or outside the continental United States. The Corps covers purchases made by executive agencies for those missions (see 10 U.S.C. 101(a)(13) and section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)). Joining is voluntary and open to federal employees and Armed Forces who work in government contracting. GSA may set training rules with help from the Federal Acquisition Institute and the Chief Acquisition Officers Council, and training is paid from the acquisition workforce training fund (section 1703(i)). Military members are paid from their service’s funds; civilian employees are paid by their agency. The OMB Director can approve deployments after an agency asks and the agency head agrees, but the Secretary of Defense can still send Defense personnel for contingency operations. GSA must send a yearly report by September 30 to the relevant Senate and House committees listing number of members, program cost, deployments, and deployment performance.