---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 1711"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "1711"
heading: "Value engineering"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/1711"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division B — Office of Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Chapter 17 — Agency Responsibilities and Procedures"
---

# §1711. Value engineering


Each executive agency shall establish and maintain cost-effective procedures and processes for analyzing the functions of a program, project, system, product, item of equipment, building, facility, service, or supply of the agency. The analysis shall be—

- (1) performed by qualified agency or contractor personnel; and
- (2) directed at improving performance, reliability, quality, safety, and life cycle costs.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3718.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1711 | 41:432. | Pub. L. 93–400, § 36, as added Pub. L. 104–106, title XLIII, § 4306(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 665. |