Contracting Out: Summary and Overview : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil Service of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, March 29, 1995 |
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A-76 cost comparison A-76 decisions A-76 process A-76 program A-76 studies Accounting Office administration analyses Answer BERNARD SANDERS Chairman CON CONGRESS CONG CONGRES THE LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contracting-out decisions contractors cost studies cost-effective downsizing effective efficient ensure eral ESS THE LIBRARY estimated federal agencies Federal employees Federal Government Federal work force FRANK MASCARA goals going government agencies GRESS hearing implementation improve in-house performance inherently governmental functions inventory issue John Mica KOSKINEN legislative restrictions LIBR LIBRA LIBRARY CONGRES LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY THE LIBRARY Management and Budget MASCARA ment MICA MORELLA National Performance Office of Management OMB Circular A-76 OOF CONGRESS percent personnel ceilings prepared statement private sector Question RESS result savings service contracts Stevens subcommittee taxpayer testimony Thank tions Title 10 Section tracting weather satellite workforce workload
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Page 2 - The task force met, pursuant to notice at 10:15 am, in room 311, Cannon House Office Building, Hon.
Page 14 - A— 76 program. However, several reports that we did in the 1980s may provide some insight. For example, in a 1985 report on the program's impact in DOD,1 we found that the majority of federal workers whose jobs had been contracted out obtained other federal employment, most often at the same installation. We found that of 2,535 DOD employees we sampled who worked in activities that were contracted out in fiscal year 1983, 74 percent had found other government jobs, most often at the same installation;...
Page 48 - Service specified in subsection (e) (1) through (6) are permanent Federal functions to be carried out by the Secretary through the Service and its employees, and shall not be transferred from the Service, by contract or otherwise, to the private sector on a permanent or temporary basis without express approval of the Congress.
Page 48 - Neither the President nor any other official of the Government shall make any effort to lease, sell, or transfer to the private sector, or commercialize, any portion of the weather satellite systems operated by the Department of Commerce or any successor agency.
Page 9 - I thank the gentleman, and now yield to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Gilman. Mr. GILMAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank you for...
Page 16 - ... employees instead of contractors but did not do so because they were forced to work under arbitrary personnel ceilings. GAO has also reported that agencies sometimes manage their in-house workforces by personnel ceilings set by OMB that "frequently have the effect of encouraging agencies to contract out regardless of the results of cost, policy, or high-risk studies.
Page 17 - This concludes my prepared statement, Mr. Chairman. I will be pleased to answer any questions you or the Members of the Subcommittee may have.
Page 39 - President to take appropriate action to ensure that there is no increase in the procurement of service contracts by reason of the enactment of this act except in cases in which a cost comparison demonstrates such contracts would be to the financial advantage of the Federal Government.
Page 41 - The agency review is to consist of the following major segments: • preparation of a performance work statement that, among other things, describes the work required and serves as the basis for contractor bids and a management study containing the government's estimate of the lowest number and types of employees required to do the functions described in the work statement — generally referred to as the "most efficient organization...