GSA's cleaning costs are needlessly higher than in the private sector: report to the Congress |
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A-76 cost comparisons Addressee Date Publication APPENDIX believe GSA Blue-Collar buildings management clean at night clean offices cleaners cleaning contracts cleaning for GSA cleaning quality cleans fewer square competitive contract cleaning costs contract cleaning operation contract costs contract for cleaning contract operation converting to contract COST OF CLEANING custodial contracts custodial firms cleaning custodial operations custodians Date Publication number efficient employees ensure quality equitable building executive branch Explore with OMB Federal agencies feet per hour fewer square feet four regions studied GAO believes GSA contractors GSA landlords GSA needs GSA officials GSA'S CLEANING COSTS GSA's in-house staff Guard Contracting in-house custodial staff inspec labor hour requirement million square feet minimum labor hour minimum number National Capital Region office space OMB Circular A-76 percent performance preaward survey private sector production rate Public Buildings Service recommendations Small Business Small Business Act Small Business Administration staff hours staffing standards tracts vacuum
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Page 24 - Policies for Acquiring Commercial or Industrial Products and Services Needed by the Government...
Page 22 - The policy must be stable and must appropriately balance many issues of national significance. It needs both legislative and executive branch endorsement and support.
Page 22 - GAO's assessment of the executive branch's policies and programs for obtaining commercial or industrial products and services for Government use. It discusses the history and evolution, the overall perceptions, the status of implementation, the major problems and influences, and the proposed changes to the current policy. GAO is particularly concerned that, without a firm national policy, the future for this program will be a repetition of the past-confusion, controversy, and ineffective implementation.
Page 20 - Federal pay range at each non-supervisory grade is 16 percent with five equal steps. In contrast, most private sector employees are paid under singlerate pay schedules. When multiple-step schedules exist in the private sector, many have fewer steps than the Federal system. The second Federal step is equated to the prevailing private sector rate, but most Federal employees moved to the fifth step in May 1975 — placing them 12 percent above market. "Under certain conditions private sector wage rates...
Page 21 - Federal agencies should be given general multi-year contracting authority for supplies and services." Secretary Carlucci, in the DOD report issued on April 30, 1981, approved the following recommendation. "Encourage extensive use of multi-year procurement based on case-by-case benefit/risk analysis." Secretary Carlucci cited the potential for "... average dollar savings of 10 to 20 percent in unit...
Page 25 - ... and institutions outside the Government solely to circumvent personnel ceilings. Agencies that contract out for goods and services under the structured and deliberate process prescribed by OMB Circular A-76 are doing so because it is cost effective and reduces the growth in Government spending.
Page 2 - The General Services Administration Needs to Improve Its Cleaning and Guard Contracting Activities,
Page 24 - ... savings of at least 10 percent of the estimated Government personnel costs for the period of the comparative analysis; and Federal employees displaced as a result of the conversion to contract performance will be given the right of first refusal for employment openings in the contract operation.
Page 24 - The Circular provides that when private performance of commercial or industrial activities is feasible and no overriding factors require in-house performance, a rigorous comparison of contract costs versus in-house costs will be made, using the Circular's Cost Comparison Handbook, to determine whether the work will continue to be performed by in-house personnel or converted to a contract operation.
Page ii - The policy also encourages GSA to organize and staff its in-house operations for the most effective performance before making a cost comparison.