non-Standard designs The Secretary of State shall carry out any new diplomatic post project that is in the design phase or pre-design phase as of the date of the enactment of this Act and that utilizes bridging or non-standard design under subsection (c) only after notification to and consultation with the appropriate congressional committees. Such notification and consultation shall include provision to the appropriate congressional committees, for each such project, of the following documentation: (1) A comparison of the estimated full lifecycle costs of the project at issue to the estimated full lifecycle costs of such project if such project were to use a standard design. (2) A comparison of the estimated completion date of such project to the estimated completion date of such project if such project were to use a standard design. (3) A comparison of the security of such completed project to the security of such completed project if such completed project were to use a standard design. (4) A justification for the Secretary’s selection of a non-standard design over a standard design for such project. (e) Performance evaluation Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding performance evaluation measures in line with GAO’s Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government that will be applicable to the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations of the Department of State. (f) Definitions In this section: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. (2) Bridging The term bridging means a delivery method for construction projects that is a hybrid of the traditional design-bid-build and the design-build methods, whereby the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations of the Department of State first contracts with a design firm to develop a