- academic affiliate
means an institution or organization described in section 7302(d) of this title.
- Administrator
means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
- appropriate congressional committees
means—
- beneficiary
means a person who is a primary beneficiary of the Department of Veterans Affairs or of the Department of Defense.
- business owner
means, with respect to an information technology project, the program manager, project manager, or other supervisory official of the Department responsible for the project.
- change in non-Federal price
means, with respect to a covered drug that is subject to an agreement under this section, an amount equal to—
- commercial service
means a service that is offered and sold competitively in the commercial marketplace, is performed under standard commercial terms and conditions, and is procured using firm-fixed price contracts.
- committee
means the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, and the term “committees” means both such committees.
- committees
means both such committees.
- construction
means the construction of new domiciliary or nursing home buildings, the expansion, remodeling, or alteration of existing buildings for the provision of domiciliary, nursing home, adult day health, or hospital care in State homes, and the provision of initial equipment for any such buildings.
- contract year
means any one-year period for which a multi-year contract described in subsection (d) is in effect.
- cost of construction
means the amount found by the Secretary to be necessary for a construction project, including architect fees, but excluding land acquisition costs.
- covered certification program
means, with respect to employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs who are members of occupational series relating to construction or facilities management, or employees of the Department who award or administer contracts for major construction, minor construction, or nonrecurring maintenance, including as contract specialists or contracting officers’ representatives, a program to certify knowledge and skills relating to construction or facilities management and to ensure that such employees maintain adequate expertise relating to industry standards and best practices for the acquisition of design and construction services.
- covered drug
means—
- covered entity
means a unit or subdivision of a State, local, or municipal government, public or nonprofit agency, institution, or organization, or other institution or organization as the Secretary considers appropriate that owns property controlled by an academic affiliate to be leased under this subsection.
- covered product or service
means—
- covered training curriculum
means, with respect to employees specified in subparagraph (A), a training curriculum relating to construction or facilities management.
- depot
means a centralized commodity management system through which covered drugs procured by an agency of the Federal Government are—
- direct health care
means health care provided to a beneficiary in a medical facility operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Department of Defense.
- eligible person
means an individual to whom the Secretary is authorized to furnish medical examination or treatment.
- emergency procurement
means a procurement necessary to meet an emergency need, affecting the health or safety of a person being furnished health-care services by the Department, for an item.
- enhanced-use lease
means a written lease entered into by the Secretary under this subchapter.
- funded personnel ceiling
means, with respect to any fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year), the authorization by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to employ (under the appropriation accounts for medical care, medical and prosthetic research, and medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses) not less than the number of employees for the employment of which appropriations have been made for such fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year).
- garage
means a structure (or part of a structure) in which vehicles may be parked.
- health-care item
includes any item listed in, or (as determined by the Secretary) of the same nature as an item listed in, Federal Supply Classification (FSC) Group 65 or 66.
- health-care providers
includes health-care plans and insurers and any organizations, institutions, or other entities or individuals who furnish health-care resources.
- health-care resource
includes hospital care, medical services, and rehabilitative services, as those terms are defined in paragraphs (5), (6), and (8), respectively, of section 1701 of this title, services under sections 1782 and 1783 of this title, any other health-care service, and any health-care support or administrative resource.
- information technology
has the meaning given that term in section 11101 of title 40.
- information technology project
refers to an individual project or program or a grouping of multiple projects or programs resulting in the acquisition or implementation of discrete information technology.
- interim leasing actions
has the meaning given that term by the Administrator of the General Services Administration.
- July 1 deadline
means July 1 of the fiscal year in which the State is notified by the Secretary of the availability of funding for a grant for such project.
- lessee
means the party with whom the Secretary has entered into an enhanced-use lease under this subchapter.
- life cycle costs
means all direct and indirect costs to acquire, implement, operate, and maintain information technology, including with respect to costs of any element of the Department.
- local contract
means a contract entered into by a Department medical center for procurement of an item for use by that medical center.
- major enhanced-use lease
means an enhanced-use lease that includes consideration consisting of an average annual rent of more than $10,000,000.
- major information technology project
means an information technology project if—
- major medical facility project
means a project for the construction, alteration, or acquisition of a medical facility involving a total expenditure of more than the amount specified in paragraph (4), but such term does not include an acquisition by exchange, nonrecurring maintenance projects of the Department, or the construction, alteration, or acquisition of a shared Federal medical facility for which the Department’s estimated share of the project costs does not exceed the amount specified in paragraph (4).
- manufacturer
means any entity which is engaged in— Such term does not include a wholesale distributor of drugs or a retail pharmacy licensed under State law.
- medical facility
means any facility or part thereof which is, or will be, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, or as otherwise authorized by law, for the provision of health-care services (including hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical services), including any necessary building and auxiliary structure, garage, parking facility, mechanical equipment, trackage facilities leading thereto, abutting sidewalks, accommodations for attending personnel, and recreation facilities associated therewith.
- medical services
includes services under sections 1782 and 1783 of this title.
- non-Federal average manufacturer price
means, with respect to a covered drug and a period of time (as determined by the Secretary), the weighted average price of a single form and dosage unit of the drug that is paid by wholesalers in the United States to the manufacturer, taking into account any cash discounts or similar price reductions during that period, but not taking into account—
- parking facility
includes—
- providing Department
means the Department of Veterans Affairs, in the case of care or services furnished by a facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Defense, in the case of care or services furnished by a facility of the Department of Defense.
- service region
means a geographic service area of the Veterans Health Administration, in the case of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and a service region, in the case of the Department of Defense.
- small business concern
has the meaning given that term under section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
- small business concern owned and controlled by veterans
has the meaning given that term under section 3(q)(3) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)(3)).
- small business concern owned and controlled by veterans with service-connected disabilities
has the meaning given the term “small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans” under section 3(q)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)(2)).
- space
means any room, unit, floor, wing, building, parking facility, or other subdivision of a building or facility owned or controlled by an academic affiliate.
- State
includes each Indian tribe (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)) but does not include any possession of the United States.
- super construction project
means a project for the construction, alteration, or acquisition of a medical facility involving a total expenditure of more than $100,000,000.
- supportive housing
means housing that engages tenants in on-site and community-based support services for veterans or their families that are at risk of homelessness or are homeless.
- temporary research personnel
means personnel who are employed in the Veterans Health Administration in other than a career appointment for work on a research activity and who are not paid by the Department or are paid from funds appropriated to the Department to support such activity.
- weighted average price
means, with respect to a covered drug and a period of time (as determined by the Secretary) an amount equal to—