Amendment authorized the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to award contracts to domestic firms, which under normal competitive procedures would be awarded to foreign firms, if the final product of the domestic firm would be completely assembled in the United States with 50% of the final product produced domestically, and not more than a 6% difference existed between the foreign and domestic bids.

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Amendment Number
278
Description
Amendment authorized the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to award contracts to domestic firms, which under normal competitive procedures would be awarded to foreign firms, if the final product of the domestic firm would be completely assembled in the United States with 50% of the final product produced domestically, and not more than a 6% difference existed between the foreign and domestic bids.
Purpose
An amendment to add a new section containing the "Buy-American" requirement language.
Congress
101
Type
HAMDT
Latest Action Date
Oct 12, 1989
Latest Action Text
On agreeing to the Traficant amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.
Latest Action Time
15:32:48
Submitted Date
Oct 12, 1989
Chamber
House of Representatives
Update Date
Jul 10, 2021
Amendment 278 — Informed