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Intents and Outcomes for Local Businesses in Post-Disaster Contracting under the Stafford Act
The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S: Rethinking Legislation, Policy, and Finance
ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy, Routledge
12/08/2016
Abstract
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (U.S.P.L. 100-707) of 1988 is the major law governing federally assisted disaster-related contracting in the U.S. The Act includes a stated preference in federally assisted post-disaster contracting expenditures “to the extent feasible and practicable… [for] those organizations, firms, and individuals residing or doing business primarily in the area affected by such major disaster or emergency” (42 USC §5150(a)(1)). The Act also allows for setaside of contracts within a geographic area, and requires justification for contracts made outside the affected area. Concomitantly, in federal procurement the principle of full and open competition is a general directive, from executive agencies to grant-funded projects to state and local governments; this fundamental concept can work even in instances where other compelling government interest intervenes, as it does in the Act’s preference language.
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- Title
- Intents and Outcomes for Local Businesses in Post-Disaster Contracting under the Stafford Act
- Publication Details
- The Future of Disaster Management in the U.S: Rethinking Legislation, Policy, and Finance
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Series
- ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy
- Number of pages
- 260
- Copyright
- © Taylor & Francis 2016
- Identifiers
- 99380523296006600
- Academic Unit
- Business Administration; Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
- Language
- English