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 103 STAT. 1494 PUBLIC LAW 101-189—NOV. 29, 1989 ance of specific advisory and assistance services, subject to the requirements of this subsection. Any such request for offers shall contain a statement of work clearly specifying sdl tasks to be performed under the order. Upon evaluation of an offer or offers resulting from a request, the task order shall be issued to the source submitting the offer that the Secretary of Defense determines to be the most advantageous to the United States, considering only cost or • price and other factors included in the request for offers. "(3)(A) The requirements for the giving of notice of certain solici- tations that are prescribed in section 18 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 416) and section 8(e) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(e)) shall apply to solicitations for offers for a master agreement under this subsection in the same manner and to the same extent as those requirements apply to solicitations for proposals for a contract for services for a price expected to exceed $25,000. . "(B) Such requirements for the giving of notice shall not apply to the issuance of orders under a master agreement entered into pursuant to the procedures established under this section, except that the Secretary of Defense shall furnish for publication by the Secretary of Commerce a notice announcing the order. "(4) The total vedue of task orders issued under master agree- ments by any contracting activity in a fiscal year may not exceed the amount equal to 30 percent of the vedue of all contracts for advisory and assistance services awarded by that contracting activ- ity during fiscal year 1989. "(5) The authority provided by this subsection to enter into master agreements shall terminate at the end of the three-year period beginning on the date on which final regulations prescribed to carry out this subsection take effect.", SEC. 813. AVAILABILITY OF FX^^DS FOR OBLIGATION FOLLOWING THE RESOLUTION OF A PROTEST (a) IN GENERAL. —Subchapter IV of chapter 15 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: "§ 1558. Availability of funds following resolution of a protest "(a) Notwithstanding section 1552 of this title or any other provi- sion of law, funds available to an agency for obligation for a contract at the time a protest is filed in connection with a solicitation for, proposed award of, or award of such contract shall remain available for obligation for 90 working days after the date on which the final ruling is made on the protest. A ruling is considered final on the date on which the time allowed for filing an appeal or request for reconsideration has expired, or the date on which a decision is rendered on such an appeal or request, whichever is later. "(b) Subsection (a) applies with respect to any protest filed under subchapter V of chapter 35 of this title or under section 111(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 759(0).". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: "1558. Availability of funds following resolution of a protest.", „,

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