The vote on the spending measure also will be the final action for the current budget cycle on policies for considering federal jobs for contractor performance, a cycle that has produced a mixed bag of instructions. For example, language affecting the Defense Department and the Interior Department allows work to be contracted-out only if the contractor bid is the lower of 10 percent or $10 million less than the in-house bid. At agencies covered by the Transportation-Treasury spending bill-which is part of the catchall measure–that formula must be taken into consideration, but other agencies need not even consider it. Similarly, DoD, Interior and the agencies in the Transportation-Treasury bill must allow employees of functions with 10 or more jobs to reorganize into the “most efficient organization” before being put up for bid, a requirement that doesn’t apply to other agencies. DoD further can’t put any of the new policies under the revised Circular A-76 into effect until it issues a report on what effect the changes will have there-a restriction not applying to other agencies. And the Veterans Affairs Department was denied funding to conduct certain studies, effectively barring them even though no formal restrictions were placed on VA.