---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 11314"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "11314"
heading: "Authority to acquire and manage information technology"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/11314"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Information Technology Management"
  - "Chapter 113 — Responsibility for Acquisitions of Information Technology"
  - "Subchapter II — Executive Agencies"
---

# §11314. Authority to acquire and manage information technology

- (a) **In General.—** The authority of the head of an [executive agency](/usc/40/102.md?p=4) to acquire [information technology](/usc/40/11101.md?p=6) includes—
  - (1) acquiring [information technology](/usc/40/11101.md?p=6) as authorized by law;
  - (2) making a contract that provides for multiagency acquisitions of [information technology](/usc/40/11101.md?p=6) in accordance with guidance issued by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and
  - (3) if the Director finds that it would be advantageous for the Federal Government to do so, making a multiagency contract for procurement of [commercial products](/usc/40/11101.md?p=1) of [information technology](/usc/40/11101.md?p=6) that requires each [executive agency](/usc/40/102.md?p=4) covered by the contract, when procuring those products, to procure the products under that contract or to justify an alternative procurement of the products.
- (b) **FTS 2000 Program.—** The Administrator of General Services shall continue to manage the FTS 2000 program, and to coordinate the follow-on to that program, for and with the advice of the heads of [executive agencies](/usc/40/102.md?p=4).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1241; Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 836(g)(7)(B), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1874.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 11314 | 40:1424. | Pub. L. 104–106, div. E, title LI, § 5124, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 684. |

In subsection (b), the words “Notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other law” are omitted as unnecessary.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 115–232 substituted “products” for “items” wherever appearing.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Jan. 1, 2020, subject to a savings provision, see section 836(h) of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as an Effective Date of 2018 Amendment; Savings Provision note under section 453b of Title 6, Domestic Security.