1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act of 2020 . 2. Prohibition on use of a reverse auction for the award of a contract for complex, specialized, or substantial design and construction services (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) In contrast to a traditional auction in which the buyers bid up the price, sellers bid down the price in a reverse auction. (2) Reverse auctions, while providing value for the vast majority of Federal acquisitions, including certain construction-related acquisitions, are limited in value for complex, specialized, or substantial design and construction services. (b) Reverse auction defined In this Act, the term reverse auction means, with respect to any procurement by an executive agency, a real-time auction generally conducted through an electronic medium among two or more offerors who compete by submitting bids for a supply or service contract, or a delivery order, task order, or purchase order under the contract, with the ability to submit revised lower bids at any time before the closing of the auction. (c) Prohibition (1) In general Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be amended to prohibit the use of reverse auctions for awarding contracts for complex, specialized, or substantial design and construction services. (2) Applicability to acquisitions above the simplified acquisition threshold The prohibition on reverse auctions for complex, specialized, or substantial design and construction services shall apply only to acquisitions above the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) for construction and design services pursuant to part 36 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (d) Rulemaking for complex, specialized, or substantial services Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council shall promulgate a definition of complex, specialized, or substantial design and