NAM review of the PSQIA Report

Pursuant to the authority of FAR 6.302-5(a)(2)(i) and (c)(iii)(B), Authorized or required by statute, “Full and open competition need not be provided for when, a statute expressly authorizes or requires that the acquisition be made through another agency or from a specified source…To any contract requiring the National Academy of Sciences to investigate, examine, or experiment upon any subject of science or art of significance to an executive agency and to report on those matters to the Congress or any agency of the Federal Government.” Furthermore, this requirement was procured as a cost reimbursement type contract per 36 U.S. Code § 150303 - Services to United States Government, "On request of the United States Government, the corporation shall investigate, examine, experiment, and report on any subject of science or art. The corporation may not receive compensation for services to the Government, but the actual expense of the investigation, examination, experimentation, and report shall be paid by the Government from an appropriation for that purpose." (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1389.)