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H.R. 5217 117th Congress House

Federal Acquisition E-Commerce Fairness and Competition Act

Official title: To amend section 846 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 to expand the testing program for e-commerce portal models, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 10, 2021 Introduced by: Veronica Escobar Democratic · Texas See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

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Federal Acquisition E-Commerce Fairness and Competition Act

This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to expand the testing program for e-commerce portal models.

Specifically, the GSA must (1) expand the proof-of-concept testing program by testing at least three commercial e-commerce portal models, including the E-Commerce Model, the E-Procurement Model, and the E-Marketplace Model (as described in a GSA implementation plan published in March 2018), to ensure that such program is representative of available commercial e-commerce portal models that qualify for the program; and (2) report to Congress.

The GSA must ensure that a commercial e-commerce portal provider awarded a contract that is owned or controlled by a person or entity with a market capitalization greater than $600 billion at any time in the two years preceding this bill's enactment (e.g., Amazon) does not sell products through the commercial e-commerce portal that compete with products sold by any third-party supplier through such portal.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 3 Republican 1
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Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Nov 4, 2021
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Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Nov 4, 2021
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Mfume, Kweisi
Maryland · Nov 4, 2021
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Tenney, Claudia
New York · Nov 2, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5217: Federal Acquisition E-Commerce Fairness and Competition Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5217/
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"H.R. 5217: Federal Acquisition E-Commerce Fairness and Competition Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5217/.
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