HELP Response and Recovery Act

This bill changes the rules for emergency contracts that the Department of Homeland Security can award without the usual competitive bidding process during disaster response and recovery. Right now, those contracts can only last up to 150 days, but this bill would allow them to last up to one year by removing the current time limit and letting standard government rules for urgent needs apply instead. The bill also requires the Department of Homeland Security to send a report to Congress every year for five years explaining how this change has helped prevent wasteful spending and providing details on emergency contracts awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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