New Century, New Process: A Preview of Competitive Sourcing for the 21st Century : Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, June 26, 2003 |
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A-76 Circular A-76 competitions A-76 process A-76 revisions Acquisition Administration Administration's Agency Tender agency's allow arbitrary best value bidders Chairman TOM DAVIS challenge Commercial Activities Panel committee compete competition process conduct contracting officers contractors cost comparisons definition of inherently Department of Defense DILKS direct conversions efficient eliminate ensure evaluation FAIR Act Federal Acquisition Regulation federal agencies federal employees federal government federal jobs federal workforce FTEs goals government employees Government Reform GRONE HARNAGE implement improve in-house inherently governmental functions inventories issue ITPE JO ANN DAVIS June 26 Mellon Bank NTEU OMB Circular A-76 OMB's outsourcing overhead oversight percent performed by federal playing field President's Management Agenda private contractors procurement proposal protest public-private competitions questions revised A-76 revised Circular service contracting SHAYS small businesses SOLOWAY source selection sourcing decisions standard competition strategic sourcing streamlined competition streamlined process Styles taxpayers Thank TIERNEY timeframe unions
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Page 165 - and other distinguished Members of this committee, my name is Colleen Kelley and I am the National President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). I was one of the twelve members of the Commercial Activities Panel (CAP). NTEU represents
Page 17 - addressing highrisk areas, such as human capital and contract management In this regard, GAO has listed contract management at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Energy as an area of high risk.
Page 29 - Thank you, Ms. Styles. [The prepared statement of Ms. Styles follows:] STATEMENT OF ANGELA B. STYLES ADMINISTRATOR FOR FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE
Page 101 - 2. Be consistent with human capital practices designed to attract, motivate, retain, and reward a high-performing federal workforce. The commentary to this principle insists that agencies should consider the impact of outsourcing on recruitment and retention and that the federal workforce should be treated as "valuable assets." Can anyone, no matter how pro-privatization, seriously contend that the privatization quotas and the rewritten circular show
Page 90 - work. That contractors provide inferior pay and benefits, particularly for lower-level work, has been conclusively established by the Economic Policy Institute (THE FORGOTTEN WORKFORCE: More Than One in 10 Federal Contract Workers Eam Less Than a Living Wage, 2000). OMB should have
Page 81 - 2003 American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO 80 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 * (202) 737-8700 * www.af8e.org
Page 122 - That in order to promote a more level playing field on which to conduct publicprivate competitions, the government needs to shift, as rapidly as possible, to a FAR-type process under which all parties compete under the same set of rules. " Shifting competitive sourcing to
Page 108 - DAVIS OF VIRGINIA. Thank you, Ms. Kelley. [The prepared statement of Ms. Kelley follows:] Testimony Of Colleen M. Kelley National President National Treasury Employees Union "NTEU Views on
Page 105 - open' to the public (eg, Freedom of Information Act), limit the pay for official service, and limit the participation of officials in political activities.
Page 165 - NTEU filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that OMB's revisions to A-76 are illegal. NTEU believes that OMB has illegally trumped Congress on the sensitive issue of determining whether a function is "so intimately related to the public interest as to require performance by federal govemment employees." In the lawsuit, we point out that the A-76 revisions require federal agencies to apply a substantially narrower definition of inherently