National Park Service Concessions Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, to Review the National Park Service Concessions Program, Including Implementation of the National Park Service Concessions Management Improvement Act of 1998, April 8, 2004 |
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$3 million Allen Naille asset management awarded bidders bidding process Business Practices capital improvement cessions Chairman changes committee competition concept conces concession contracts Concession Management Advisory concessionaires Congress contract term CORNELSSEN corporate cost CRAIG THOMAS cross-collateralization Director's Order environmental evaluation franchise fee future contracts GAAP Grand Canyon gross IDIQ implementation incentive incumbent investment issues Jackson Lake Lodge JONES leasehold surrender interest LSI treatment LSI value Management Advisory Board ment NAFI National Park Service Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality NPHA believes NPS concession operations oversight park facilities Park Service Concessions park visitors physical depreciation possessory interest preferential right PricewaterhouseCoopers proposal prospectus provide quality quality services rate approval recommendations regulations response restoring the preference revenues right of renewal Senator THOMAS Service Concessions Management sion sioners small businesses Small Concessioners Standard Contracts statute superintendents threshold tion tracts U.S. SENATOR WELCH White Sands
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Page 56 - Employment Act of 1946". DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining,...
Page 56 - Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of small business is encouraged and developed.
Page 56 - Government should aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts for property and services for the Government ( ) be placed with small business enterprises...
Page 56 - The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured.
Page 35 - Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall take such action as may be appropriate to encourage and enable private persons and corporations (hereinafter referred to as "concessioners") to provide and operate facilities and services which he deems desirable for the accommodation of visitors in areas administered by the National Park Service.
Page 56 - Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts for property and services for the Government (including but not limited to contracts...
Page 56 - ... (11) To make studies and recommendations to the appropriate Federal agencies to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises, to insure that a fair proportion of Government contracts for research and development be placed with small-business concerns...
Page 35 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I truly appreciate the opportunity to...
Page 57 - ... and preserving the resources of the park area and of providing necessary and appropriate services to the public at reasonable rates.
Page 25 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Park Hospitality Association ("NPHA"), I represent a membership that is responsible for most of the visitor services provided by the private sector in our National Parks. I...