---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 1128"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "1128"
heading: "Maintaining necessary capability with respect to acquisition of architectural and engineering services"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/1128"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division B — Office of Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Chapter 11 — Establishment of Office and Authority and Functions of Administrator"
  - "Subchapter II — Authority and Functions of the Administrator"
---

# §1128. Maintaining necessary capability with respect to acquisition of architectural and engineering services


The [Administrator](/usc/41/101.md), in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the [Administrator](/usc/41/101.md) of General Services, and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, shall develop and implement a plan to ensure that the Federal Government maintains the necessary capability with respect to the acquisition of architectural and engineering services to—

- (1) ensure that Federal Government [employees](/usc/41/8101.md?p=a-6) have the expertise to determine agency requirements for those services;
- (2) establish priorities and programs, including acquisition plans;
- (3) establish professional [standards](/usc/41/114.md);
- (4) develop scopes of work; and
- (5) award and administer contracts for those services.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3690.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1128 | 41:433 note. | Pub. L. 108–136, title XIV, § 1414, Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1666. |