Federal Procurement Efficiency and Anti-Inflation Act

Status: HopperSession: September 2026 Senate SessionIssue: Inflation

Summary

This bill aims to reduce federal spending pressures by tightening competitive bidding, cutting procurement waste, consolidating overlapping contracts, and publicly reporting procurement cost growth. It avoids expanding executive power, pauses some new administrative procurement overhead for a year, and sends any documented savings to deficit reduction while exempting national security and emergency response needs.

Full text

To help ease inflationary pressure without expanding executive authority, this bill directs all executive agencies to strengthen competitive bidding standards, consolidate duplicative logistics and supply contracts where practical, publish quarterly reports on procurement cost growth, and implement targeted waste-reduction plans for high-cost purchasing categories identified by the Government Accountability Office; it further freezes non-essential new administrative procurement overhead for one fiscal year and requires that documented savings be applied to deficit reduction, with national security and emergency response procurements exempted where necessary.

Sponsor

Lowell GoffRepublican Party

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