1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Act of 2018 . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Covered contract The term covered contract means a Federal contract for the procurement of property or services, including construction, valued in excess of $500,000. (2) Covered subcontract The term covered subcontract — (A) means a subcontract for property or services under a Federal contract that is valued in excess of $500,000; and (B) does not include a subcontract for the procurement of commercially available off-the-shelf items. (3) Executive agency The term executive agency has the meaning given the term in section 133 of title 41, United States Code. 3. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to— (1) ensure that the purchasing power of the Federal Government is employed to raise labor standards, improve working conditions, and strengthen workers’ bargaining power; and (2) increase efficiency and cost savings in the work performed by parties who contract with the Federal Government by ensuring that they understand and comply with labor laws, which are designed to promote safe, healthy, fair, and effective workplaces and increase the likelihood of enhanced productivity in the workplace and the timely, predictable, and satisfactory delivery of goods and services to the Federal Government. 4. Required pre-contract award actions (a) Disclosures The head of an executive agency shall ensure that the solicitation for a covered contract requires the offeror— (1) to represent, to the best of the offeror’s knowledge and belief, whether there has been any administrative merits determination, arbitral award or decision, or civil judgment, as defined in guidance issued by the Secretary of Labor, rendered against the offeror in the preceding 3 years for violations of— (A) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.); (B) the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 ( 29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.); (C) the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act ( 29 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)