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ANTI BID SHOPPING LEGISLATION
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Mency to accomplish its objectives and will merely create a multitude of administrative difficulties. Enactment of this bill would greatly hamper the administration of the new public building and public works programs and would result in many unavoidable delays in getting these programs underway. This for the reason that administrative difficulties bound to arise because of its provisions may well necessitate the re-advertisement of many projects, apart from those to be expected after contracts are awarded. (83 Cong. Rec. 9708).
Other bills identical with or substantially similar to H.R. 46, and their legislative history, are as follows:
2nd Congress-1932
S. 437 To require contractors on public building projects to name their subcontractors, material men, and supply men and for other purposes.
Mr. Bingham Committee on Education and Labor.
S. 4081 same heading and sponsor. Referred to Committee on Education and Labor.
H.R. 4680 same heading. Introduced by Mr. Gross and referred to House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.
H.R. 9921 same heading and sponsor and referred to House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments. Reported out.
3rd Congress
H.R. 4937-To require contractors on public building projects to name their subcontractors, material men and supply men, and for other purposes.
Mr. Griswald Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Depts.'
H.R. 9776 same heading and referred to same committee. Introduced by Mr. Higgins.
75th Congress, 3rd Sess.
H.R. 10087 to require contractors on public building projects to name their subcontractors, and for other purposes.
Mr. Atkinson Committee on the Judiciary.
76th Congress
S. 1639 To require contractors on public building projects to name their subcontractors, material men and supply men, and for other purposes.
Mr. Walsh Committee on Education and Labor.
It is to be noted that with the exceptions of H.R. 146, 75th Cong., and H.R. 9921, 72nd Cong., neither of the above bills proceeded beyond their referral to the appropriate committee.
This was substantially the state of the law and background until the spring of 1963 when the General Services Administration specified the listing of subcontractor on certain G.S.A. pilot projects. Under this program, 23 contracts were let for the stated purpose of (1) avoiding bid peddling. (2) improving quality of government subcontractors and (3) promoting competition.
It is interesting to note an opinion of the Controller General in sustaining the pilot program, as follows:
GSA has reported to us that, in the absence of firm commitments for the subcontracting work, the general contractor can and frequently does bid shop and obtain more favorable subcontract prices than those upon which his bid was based, with the probable dual result of inflated cost to the Government and substandard work by the sub-
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