Download or read book Abusive Practices in Department of Defense Contracting for Services and Interagency Contracting written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abusive Practices in Department of Defense Contracting for Services and Interagency Contracting S Hrg 110 165 January 17 and 31 2007 110 1 Hearing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S Hrg 110 165 written by U.S. Government Printing Office (Gpo) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.
Download or read book Abusive Practices in Department of Defense Contracting for Services and Interagency Contracting written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interagency Contracting written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interagency Contracting written by David E. Cooper (au) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fed. agencies have turned to interagency contracts (IC) -- where one agency places an order under an existing contract for another agency -- as a way to streamline the procurement process. IC can offer benefits of improved efficiency, but this approach needs to be effectively managed. This report reviewed the process that the DoD used to acquire interrogation & certain other serv. through the Dept. of the Interior to support mil. oper. in Iraq. On behalf of DoD, Interior issued 11 task orders, valued at $66 million, on an existing contract. This report identifies breakdowns in the procurement process, contributing factors that led to the breakdowns, & the extent to which recent actions by Interior & DoD address these contributing factors. Illus.
Download or read book Government Abuse written by William Sims Curry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government contracting is plagued by nefarious, amateurish, and criminal behavior. By awarding government contracts to corporations as compensation for lavish gifts and personal favors, the United States government fails to serve the public interest effectively and honestly. William Sims Curry identifies and categorizes multiple deficiencies in how government contractors are selected, and proposes how reforms can be instituted.This book is based on extensive research. Curry sifted through two years worth of contractor claims maintained by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding improper behavior of federal government agencies during the contract award process. He identified additional government contracting failures through review of media stories, inspector general reports, court cases, and press releases by government investigatory agencies.Much of this abuse originates from the mandated but ineffective practice of color coding rating proposals and a subjective ratings system. Curry proposes replacing the current practice with a scoring system that weighs contractor selection criteria according to the government's needs. This, along with the other procurement reforms Curry recommends, offers promise for an alternative to the fraud, waste, and incompetence currently rampant in government contracting.
Download or read book Off loading the Abuse of Inter agency Contracting to Avoid Competition and Oversight Requirements written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interagency Contracting written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, federal agencies have increasingly turned to interagency contracts--where one agency, for example, places an order under an existing contract for another agency--as a way to streamline the procurement process. Interagency contracting can offer benefits of improved efficiency, but this approach needs to be effectively managed. To learn more about some of the challenges of interagency contracting, we reviewed the process that the Department of Defense (DOD) used to acquire interrogation and certain other services through the Department of the Interior to support military operations in Iraq. On behalf of DOD, Interior issued 11 task orders, valued at over $66 million, on an existing contract. This report identifies breakdowns in the procurement process, contributing factors that led to the breakdowns, and the extent to which recent actions by Interior and DOD address these contributing factors.
Download or read book ABUSIVE PRACTICES IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTING HRG S HRG 110 165 COM ON ARMED SERVICES U S SENATE 110TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2009* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Contracting written by John Hutton and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming Wartime Contracting written by Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, America's military and federal-civilian employees, as well as contractors, have performed vital and dangerous tasks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Contractors' support however, has been unnecessarily costly, and has been plagued by high levels of waste and fraud. The United States will not be able to conduct large or sustained contingency operations without heavy contractor support. Avoiding a repetition of the waste, fraud, and abuse seen in Iraq and Afghanistan requires either a great increase in agencies' ability to perform core tasks and to manage contracts effectively, or a disciplined reconsideration of plans and commitments that would require intense use of contractors. Failure by Congress and the Executive Branch to heed a decade's lessons on contingency contracting from Iraq and Afghanistan will not avert new contingencies. It will only ensure that additional billions of dollars of waste will occur and that U.S. objectives and standing in the world will suffer. Worse still, lives will be lost because of waste and mismanagement.
Download or read book Interagency Contracting An Overview of Federal Procurement and Appropriations Law written by Kate M. Manuel and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an overview of the federal procurement and appropriations laws governing interagency contracting. "Interagency contracting" is the term used to describe several procurement relationships between government agencies.
Download or read book Contract management opportunities to improve surveillance on Department of Defense service contracts report to the Secretary of Defense written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous persistent problems have resulted in reduced effectiveness and have exposed DOD to unnecessary risks when acquiring services. The growth in obligations on service contracts from $85.1 billion in fiscal year 1996 to more than $151 billion in fiscal year 2006 reflects a growing reliance on contractors to provide a range of mission-critical services. At the same time, DOD's civilian workforce was downsized without sufficient attention to requisite skills and competencies. Within this environment, our work, as well as that of some agency Inspectors General, have identified numerous instances of weak business practices poorly defined requirements, inadequate competition, insufficient guidance and leadership, inadequate monitoring of contractor performance, and inappropriate uses of other agencies contracts and contracting services. Collectively, these problems expose DOD to unnecessary risk, complicate efforts to hold DOD and contractors accountable for poor acquisition outcomes, and increase the potential for fraud, waste, or abuse of taxpayer dollars. DOD's structure and processes for managing services do not position the department to make service acquisitions a managed outcome. DOD has taken some actions to improve its management of services, including developing a competency model for its contracting workforce; issuing policies and guidance to improve DOD s management of contractors supporting deployed forces and its use of interagency contracts; and developing an integrated assessment of how best to acquire services. DOD leadership will be critical for translating this assessment and other actions into effective frontline practices. At this point, however, DOD does not know how well its services acquisition processes are working and whether it is obtaining the services it needs while protecting DOD's and the taxpayer's interests.
Download or read book Gao 05 201 Interagency Contracting written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-05-201 Interagency Contracting: Problems with DOD's and Interior's Orders to Support Military Operations
Download or read book Review of Defense Procurement Policies Procedures and Practices written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee for Special Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews various aspects of DOD defense procurement policies, procedures and practices, with view to improving the system, pt. 1. Focuses on Navy procurement contract for design work on U.S.S. Independence, pt. 3.
