Amendment101st Congress
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.
- 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