# H.R. 856 (119th): Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing Act

Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing Act This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to evaluate the procurement activities of federal agencies to determine whether provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation related to the lowest price technically acceptable source selection process have created any national security risk and report to Congress.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: federal_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: national_security. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procurement. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 54: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a reporting and evaluation mandate on a generic procurement and national security question. It does not directly advance or restrain a named moral harm, so it falls under the framework's mixed or prudential category for ordinary governance measures rather than good or evil.
Theological note: Procurement policy bears on stewardship of public resources and on the civil duty to protect national security through honest, competent governance. The bill itself only requires evaluation and reporting, so its moral relevance is limited to whether federal purchasing serves the common good with faithful stewardship and prudent safeguards.

## Recorded votes

Roll 54: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 417 · Nay 0 · Other 16.

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