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legal/us/code/title-41/chapter-17/section-1711.md

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+title: "41 U.S.C. § 1711"
+description: "Value engineering"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 41
+title_name: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS"
+chapter_number: "17"
+chapter_name: "AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROCEDURES"
+section: "1711"
+citation: "41 U.S.C. § 1711"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc41@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t41/s1711"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 41 U.S.C. § 1711 - Value engineering
+
+## Text
+
+Each executive agency shall establish and maintain cost-effective procedures and processes for analyzing the functions of a program, project, system, product, item of equipment, building, facility, service, or supply of the agency. The analysis shall be—
+
+(1) performed by qualified agency or contractor personnel; and
+
+(2) directed at improving performance, reliability, quality, safety, and life cycle costs.
+
+(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3718.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 171141:432.Pub. L. 93–400, § 36, as added Pub. L. 104–106, title XLIII, § 4306(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 665.