---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3605"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3605"
heading: "Program to encourage innovative solutions to enhance electronic Government services and processes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3605"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Management and Promotion of Electronic Government Services"
---

# §3605. Program to encourage innovative solutions to enhance electronic Government services and processes

- (a) **Establishment of Program.—** The [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1) shall establish and promote a Governmentwide program to encourage contractor innovation and excellence in facilitating the development and enhancement of [electronic Government](/usc/44/3601.md?p=3) services and processes.
- (b) **Issuance of Announcements Seeking Innovative Solutions.—** Under the program, the [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Council](/usc/44/3601.md?p=2) and the [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1) for Federal Procurement Policy, shall issue announcements seeking unique and innovative solutions to facilitate the development and enhancement of [electronic Government](/usc/44/3601.md?p=3) services and processes.
- (c) **Multiagency Technical Assistance Team.—**
  - (1) The [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Council](/usc/44/3601.md?p=2) and the [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1) for Federal Procurement Policy, shall convene a multiagency technical assistance team to assist in screening proposals submitted to the [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1) to provide unique and innovative solutions to facilitate the development and enhancement of [electronic Government](/usc/44/3601.md?p=3) services and processes. The team shall be composed of employees of the agencies represented on the [Council](/usc/44/3601.md?p=2) who have expertise in scientific and technical disciplines that would facilitate the assessment of the feasibility of the proposals.
  - (2) The technical assistance team shall—
    - (A) assess the feasibility, scientific and technical merits, and estimated cost of each proposal; and
    - (B) submit each proposal, and the assessment of the proposal, to the [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1).
  - (3) The technical assistance team shall not consider or evaluate proposals submitted in response to a solicitation for offers for a pending procurement or for a specific agency requirement.
  - (4) After receiving proposals and assessments from the technical assistance team, the [Administrator](/usc/44/3601.md?p=1) shall consider recommending appropriate proposals for funding under the E-Government [Fund](/usc/44/3601.md?p=5) established under [section 3604](/usc/44/3604.md) or, if appropriate, forward the proposal and the assessment of it to the [executive agency](/usc/44/2901.md?p=13) whose mission most coincides with the subject matter of the proposal.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–347, title I, § 101(a), Dec. 17, 2002, 116 Stat. 2909.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 120 days after Dec. 17, 2002, see section 402(a) of Pub. L. 107–347, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.