U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman scored a huge win Tuesday when his bill to crack down on contractors to save money passed the House on a voice vote with a strong bipartisan wind at its back.

House Resolution  2006, called the VA Procurement Efficiency and Transparency Act, sets up standards to measure the savings from competition between bidders. Coffman and other supporters say it’s a way to make sure the government is getting the best price and that contractors meet their obligations.

Coffman, a member of the House Veterans Affairs’ Committee, has been dismayed that the VA hospital built in his district in Aurora had cost overruns of $1.7 billion, tripling the original budget.

“The VA has mismanaged billions of dollars in contract spending through its archaic procurement rules,” Coffman said in a statement. “Sadly, these mismanaged billions could have gone towards the care and benefits for our veterans.  H.R. 2006 is a concrete first step towards stopping the waste and modernizing the VA’s procurement process.”

His office cited a 2015, The Washington Post article that found the VA spent at least $6 billion a year in violation of federal contracting rules. Last year the Government Accountability Office reported that though the VA’s annual procurement budget is about $20 billion it doesn’t have clear and effective oversight  “to ensure that veterans’ needs are being met and that VA is taking full advantage of discounted pricing.”

Coffman introduced the same bill last year, but it failed to advance.

Coffman, who is chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, held a series of hearings last year on the VA’s procurement process, finding billions of dollar in fraud and waste. The lack of standard contracts delays agreements that benefit veterans, he concluded.

“We owe the passage of this legislation to the men and women who have made tremendous sacrifices serving our country and to the taxpayers that are footing the bill,” Coffman said at the time.