Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 118.djvu/2036

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118 STAT. 2006 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 determination. The Under Secretary may extend from time to time, for up to one year at a time, the period for which the written determination remains in effect. (e) TERMINATION OF APPLICABILITY OF LIMITATIONS.—Sub section (c) shall cease to apply to a GSA Client Support Center on the date on which the Inspector General of the Department of Defense and the Inspector General of the General Services Administration jointly determine that such Center is compliant with defense procurement requirements and notify the Secretary of Defense of that determination. (f) GSA CLIENT SUPPORT CENTER DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘GSA Client Support Center’’ means a Client Support Center of the Federal Technology Service of the General Services Administration. SEC. 803. DEFENSE COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SERV ICES PROCUREMENT PROCESS. (a) REQUIREMENT FOR DETERMINATION.—The Secretary of Defense shall review all potential mechanisms for procuring commercial communications satellite services and provide guidance to the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Secretaries of the military departments on how such procure ments should be conducted. The alternative procurement mecha nisms reviewed by the Secretary of Defense shall, at a minimum, include the following: (1) Procurement under indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts of other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, including the Federal Technology Service of the General Services Administration. (2) Procurement directly from commercial sources that are qualified as described in subsection (b), using full and open competition (as defined in section 4(6) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(6))). (3) Procurement by any other means that has been used by the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency or the Secretary of a military department to enter into a con tract for the procurement of commercial communications sat ellite services that is in force on the date of the enactment of this Act, including through commercial communications sat ellite service integrators and resellers. (4) Procurement under the method used as of the date of the enactment of this Act, modified with streamlined proc esses to ensure increased efficiency and cost effectiveness. (b) QUALIFIED SOURCES.—A source of commercial communica tions satellite services referred to in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) is a qualified source if the source is incorporated under the laws of a State of the United States and is either— (1) a source of commercial communications satellite services under a Federal Technology Service contract for the procure ment of commercial communications satellite services described in paragraph (1) of such subsection that is in force on the date of the enactment of this Act; or (2) a source of commercial communications satellite services that meets qualification requirements (as defined in section 2319 of title 10, United States Code, and established in accord ance with that section) to enter into a Federal Technology