15 U.S.C. § 205c — Definitions

This section defines terms used throughout this subchapter: (1) "Board" means the United States Metric Board, created under section 205d of this title. (2) "Engineering standard" means a standard that spells out (A) a specific set of conditions and requirements a material, product, process, procedure, convention, or test method must meet; and (B) the physical, functional, performance, or conformance features that go with it. (3) "International standard or recommendation" means an engineering standard that (A) is written and issued by an international organization, and (B) is recommended for individual countries to adopt as their own national standard. (4) "Metric system of measurement" means the International System of Units, as set up by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960, as interpreted or modified for the U.S. by the Secretary of Commerce. (5) "Full and open competition" has the same meaning given in section 107 of title 41. (6) "Total installed price" means the price of buying a product or material, trimming or altering it if needed to fit with other building parts, and then installing it in a federal facility. (7) "Hard-metric" means something measured, designed, and made using the metric system from the start — it does not include something measured, designed, and made in English units and then just converted to metric numbers afterward. (8) "Cost or pricing data or price analysis" has the meaning given those terms in section 3501(a) of title 41. (9) "Federal facility" means any public building, as defined in section 3301(a) of title 40, and includes any federal building or construction project that is: on public lands; used for federal agriculture research, recreation, or conservation programs; on or connected to river, harbor, flood control, reclamation, or power projects; on or connected to housing and residential projects; on a military installation (like a fort, camp, post, naval training station, airfield, proving ground, military supply depot, military school, or similar Defense Department facility); on a VA installation used for hospital or residential care; or on land connected to federal prisons. It does not include: any federal building or project the President decides should be excluded in the public interest, or any construction project or building owned or controlled by a state, local government, Indian tribe, or private entity.