Jeff Flake: “Both gentlemen speaking here are right. This requirement, the executive order, does not mandate the use of PLAs.…”

“Both gentlemen speaking here are right. This requirement, the executive order, does not mandate the use of PLAs. However, some agencies have taken it and interpreted it as such that it should mandate it. Let me give you one example here. On October 15, 2010, just a few months ago, the Army Corps of Engineers issued PIL 211-1 to all Army Corps contracting offices providing implementing guidance for the use of PLAs on Army Corps construction contracts. The following are major PIL elements. Here it is, requires the project delivery team, PDT, to consider the use of the PLA on a project-by-project basis by conducting a PLA labor market survey during acquisition planning.”