Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 2.djvu/1022

 102 STAT. 2026

PUBLIC LAW 100-456—SEPT. 29, 1988

", whether or not such economic enterprise is organized for-profit, or nonprofit purposes.". SEC. 842. PRODUCT EVALUATION (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 139 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 823, is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: "§ 2369. Product evaluation activity "(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, shall establish a program for the supervision and coordination of product evaluation activities within the Department of Defense. "(b) CONDUCT OF PRODUCT EVALUATION.—(1) The Secretary of each military department and the head of each Defense Agency may, subject to supervision and coordination by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, establish and conduct appropriate product evaluation activities. "(2) The purpose of each product evaluation activity established under paragraph (1) is to evaluate products developed by private industry independent of any contract or other arrangement with the United States in order to determine the utility of such products to the Department of Defense. '(c) COST SHARING.—As a condition to conducting an evaluation of

any product under this section, the producer of the product shall be required to pay one half of the cost of conducting such evaluation. For product development proposed by a small business concern (within the meaning of section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C 632)), the Secretary of Defense may pay up to 85 percent of the cost of product evaluation if the small business concern agrees to a notfor-profit contract.". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter, as amended by section 823, is further amended by adding at the end the following new item: "2:^69 Product evaluation activity ". SEC 843. CONTRACT GOAL FOR MINORITIES IN PRINTING-RELATED SERVICES

44 USC 502 note.

(a) TEST PROGRAM.—The Public Printer shall establish and, during fiscal years 1989 and 1990, carry out a test program for increasing its award of contracts to small and disadvantaged businesses for the printing, binding, and related services needed by the Department of Defense. The program shall have a goal of procuring in each such fiscal year from such businesses printing, binding, and related services equivalent to not more than 5 percent of the value of the printing, binding, and related services which were procured in the preceding fiscal year by the Government Printing Office from nonGovernment sources for the Department of Defense. The Public Printer may use such procurement procedures as he considers necessary to facilitate achievement of such goal (b) COVERED ENTITIES.—In this section, the term "small and disadvantaged businesses" means the small business concerns, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority institutions described in section 1207(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 (Public Law 99-661; 100 Stat. 3973). (c) ENFORCEMENT.—Any person who, for the purpose of securing a contract under subsection (a), misrepresents the status of any con-

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