---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 394"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "394"
heading: "Unsolicited proposals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/394"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part D — Acquisitions"
---

# §394. Unsolicited proposals

- (a) **Regulations required—** Within 1 year of November 25, 2002, the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be revised to include regulations with regard to unsolicited proposals.
- (b) **Content of regulations—** The regulations prescribed under [subsection (a)](#a) shall require that before initiating a comprehensive evaluation, an [agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) contact point shall consider, among other factors, that the proposal—
  - (1) is not submitted in response to a previously published [agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) requirement; and
  - (2) contains technical and cost information for evaluation and overall scientific, technical or socioeconomic merit, or cost-related or price-related factors.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 834, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2227.)