House mulls increasing contractor oversight

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) has introduced legislation that would require more control of contractors, partly by using information technology.

The Federal Contracting Oversight and Reform Act (H.R. 5726), introduced July 13, would consolidate nine separate federal databases of contract information--including Excluded Parties List System and Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation--into a single searchable and linked network. The bill also would give all members of Congress, instead of a select few, access to the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System, which contains performance information on companies. It would also be connected to the combined database.

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