Buy American Requirement (Contract Management)
As described in a Congress Research Service (CRS) report (March 2009) by John Luckey, the Buy American Act (BAA) dates from 1933 and has been the subject of just four significant amendments since then. Its purpose is to control the purchase of goods and services by the federal government with the intent of protecting the domestic labor resources.
Although that sounds straightforward enough and therefore simple to understand, the complexity comes in the detail of just how to determine what are actually deemed to be American goods and/or services. Zirkelbach (2009) provides further clarification of the requirements in her article ...
