CAT Act in plain language
1: Short title
This section gives the Act the short title "Contracting Accountability and Transparency Act," also called the "CAT Act."
Show official text
1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Contracting Accountability and Transparency Act or the CAT Act .
2: Disclosure required
This section would require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, no later than 1 year after this Act becomes law, to require every public housing agency to publicly disclose information about each contract the agency enters into on the agency's own website. For each contract, the agency would have to disclose all material information about the contract, including the goods and services provided; the vendor; the date the contract was solicited; the bids and quotes that were solicited; and the official who solicited the contract.
Show official text
2. Disclosure required The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, require each public housing agencies to publicly disclose, on the website of the public housing agency, with respect to each contract entered into by such public housing agency the following information— (1) all material information about the contract, including the goods and service provided; (2) the vendor; (3) the date of the solicitation of the contract; (4) the bids and quotes solicited; and (5) the official who solicited the contract.