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[CITE: 40USC1424]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
              CHAPTER 25--INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
 
 SUBCHAPTER I--RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACQUISITIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 
                       Part B--Executive Agencies
 
Sec. 1424. Acquisitions of information technology


(a) In general

    The authority of the head of an executive agency to conduct an 
acquisition of information technology includes the following 
authorities:
        (1) To acquire information technology as authorized by law.
        (2) To enter into a contract that provides for multiagency 
    acquisitions of information technology in accordance with guidance 
    issued by the Director.
        (3) If the Director finds that it would be advantageous for the 
    Federal Government to do so, to enter into a multiagency contract 
    for procurement of commercial items of information technology that 
    requires each executive agency covered by the contract, when 
    procuring such items, either to procure the items under that 
    contract or to justify an alternative procurement of the items.

(b) FTS 2000 program

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other law, the 
Administrator of General Services shall continue to manage the FTS 2000 
program, and to coordinate the follow-on to that program, on behalf of 
and with the advice of the heads of executive agencies.

(Pub. L. 104-106, div. E, title LI, Sec. 5124, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 
684.)
