How does the Buy American Requirements – Section 1605 of the Recovery Act – apply to Recovery Act projects and medical equipment procurements?
A. Section 1605 requires that: “None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work unless all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States.” The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance provides the following definition of a public work or public building: “means a public building of, and a public work of, a governmental entity (the United States; the District of Columbia; commonwealths, territories, and minor outlying island of the United States; States and local governments; and multi-State, regional, or interstate entities which have governmental functions). These buildings and works may include, without limitation, bridges, dams, plants, highways, parkways, streets, subways, tunnels, sewers, mains, power lines, pumping stations, heavy generators, railways, airports, terminals, docks, pier
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