Who's Doing Work for the Government?: Monitoring, Accountability and Competition in the Federal and Service Contract Workforce : Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, March 6, 2002U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 - 181 oldal |
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A-76 process A-76 studies acquisition workforce Administration American Amtrak arbitrary best value bill budget Caltrans Chairman challenge Cold War Commercial Activities Panel Committee compete conflict of interest Congress contractor workforce cost comparison customers Department of Defense DOD Competitive Sourcing DOD's downsizing engineering ensure False Claims Act Federal agencies Federal and Service federal employees Federal Government federal service contracting Federal workforce fiscal full-time equivalent functions goals government employees government services Governmental Affairs HARNAGE hearing human capital crisis improve in-house industry inherently governmental initiative issues legislation million missions officials OMB Circular A-76 outsourcing oversight Paul Light Pentagon percent personnel ceilings President private sector problems procurement public-private competition requirements rules Senator DURBIN Senator Pryor Senator Voinovich September 11 Service Contract Workforce Soloway statement strategic sourcing STYLES Subcommittee taxpayers testimony Thank TRAC Act track Washington
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136. oldal - ... whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.
159. oldal - The US Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest federation of business companies and associations and is the principal spokesman for the American business community. It represents nearly 180,000 businesses and organizations, such as local/state chambers of commerce and trade/professional associations.
140. oldal - the general policy of the administration that the Federal Government will not start or carry on any commercial activity to provide a service or product for its own use if such a product or service can be procured from private enterprise through ordinary business channels.
126. oldal - There are certain functions which should under no circumstances be contracted out. The management and control of the Federal research and development effort must be firmly in the hands of full-time Government officials clearly responsible to the President and the Congress.
164. oldal - The competitive enterprise system, characterized by individual freedom and initiative, is the primary source of national economic strength. In recognition of this principle, it has been and continues to be the general policy of the Government to rely on commercial sources to supply the products and services the Government needs.
61. oldal - August 1995, the Deputy Secretary of Defense gave renewed emphasis to the A-76 program when he directed the services to make outsourcing of support activities a priority in an effort to reduce operating costs and free up funds to meet other priority needs. The effort was subsequently incorporated as a major initiative under the thenSecretary's Defense Reform Initiative, and the program became known as competitive sourcing — in recognition of the fact, that either the public or the private sector...
59. oldal - inherently governmental function" is a function that is so intimately related to the public interest as to mandate performance by Government employees.
87. oldal - Management in 1998 on contracting out, has described service contracting as a '...dynamic political process that typically moves from a competitive market structure towards a monopolistic one. Even if the first round of bidding is genuinely competitive, the very act of bestowing a contract transforms the relative market power between the one buyer and the few sellers into a bilateral negotiation between the government and the winning bidder. The simple textbook models of competition so prized by...
82. oldal - In 1999, only 32% of federal contract workers were covered by some sort of law requiring that they be paid at least a prevailing wage... But even this minority of covered workers is not guaranteed a living wage under current laws. For example, the Department of Labor has...
125. oldal - Such interlocking directorships may serve to reinforce and strengthen the overall management of private organizations which are heavily financed by the Government. Certainly it is in the public interest that organizations on whom so much reliance is placed for accomplishing public purposes should be controlled by the most responsible, mature, and knowledgeable men available in the Nation. However, we see the clear possibility of conflict-of-interest situations developing through such common directorships...