Download or read book DOD competitive sourcing more consistency needed in identifying commercial activities report to the Chairman Subcommittee on Military Readiness Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book DOD competitive sourcing some progress but continuing challenges remain in meeting program goals report to the Chairman Subcommittee on Military Readiness Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book DOD competitive sourcing questions about goals pace and risks of key reform initiative report to the chairman Subcommittee on Military Readiness Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dod Competitive Sourcing written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) use Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 as a means of realizing an estimated $6 billion savings in support costs between fiscal years (FY) 1997 and 2003, focusing on: (1) identifying the competition and savings goals; (2) assessing the accuracy of the savings estimates provided to Congress; and (3) evaluating the adequacy of planning to support the overall program. GAO noted that: (1) DOD has underway an unprecedented program to use competitions to gain economies and efficiencies in its operations and to reduce support costs; (2) while the numbers have evolved over time, as of now, DOD is planning to open over 229,000 government positions to competition within the public and private sectors over the next several years; (3) it estimates $6 billion cumulative savings between FY 1997 and FY 2003, and $2.3 billion in recurring savings each year thereafter, as a result of these efforts; (4) however, estimates of competitive savings provided to Congress in FY 1998 are overstated, and several issues are likely to reduce the estimated savings, at least in the short-term; (5) DOD has not fully calculated either the investment costs associated with undertaking these competitions or the personnel separation costs likely to be associated with implementing them; (6) further, there are numerous indications that DOD components have already begun to experience difficulties in launching and completing the competitions within the timeframes they initially projected; (7) as a result, the achievement of savings may be delayed; (8) various officials have expressed concern about the effects of not achieving the expected savings because reductions in future operating budgets have already been planned in anticipation of these savings; (9) comprehensive planning to identify specific functions and locations for competition among the services has been limited; (10) within individual military services, it has largely been up to individual installations or major commands to identify and prioritize specific activities and functions for study and to conduct competitions; and (11) the one service that has carried out a comprehensive assessment, the Air Force, has identified a potential shortfall in viable candidates for competition.
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Download or read book DOD competitive sourcing savings are occurring but actions are needed to improve accuracy of savings estimates report to the Chairman Subcommittee on Military Readiness Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DOD Competitive Sourcing written by Barry W. Holman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This testimony discusses the Department of Defense's (DOD) use of the Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-76, which establishes federal policy for the performance of recurring commercial activities. DOD has been a leader among federal agencies in the use of the A-76 process and at one point planned to use the process to study more than 200,000 positions over several years. However, the number of positions planned for study has changed over time and the Department recently augmented its A-76 program with what it terms strategic sourcing. DOD has saved money through the A-76 process primarily by reducing the number of in-house positions. Yet, GAO has repeatedly found that it is extremely difficult to measure the precise amount of savings because available data has been limited and inconsistent. The lessons learned from DOD's A-76 program include the following: (1) studies have generally taken longer than initially expected, (2) studies have generally required higher costs and resources than initially projected, (3) finding and selecting functions to compete can be difficult, and (4) making premature budget cuts on the assumption of projected savings can be risky. Both government groups and the private sector have expressed concerns about the fairness, adequacy, costs, and timeliness of the A-76 process.
Download or read book DOD Competitive Sourcing Some Progress But Continuing Challenges Remain in Meeting Program Goals written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1995, the Department of Defense has had a significant effort under way to use competitive sourcing under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 to achieve greater organizational efficiencies and reduce operating costs. In accordance with guidance contained in the circular, Defense components perform studies to determine whether it would be more cost efficient to maintain commercial activities in-house or contract with the private sector for their performance. The Department has recently subsumed its A-76 program under a broader initiative referred to as strategic sourcing, expanding the number of positions to be studied and savings expected to be realized. The concept of strategic sourcing extends to activities that are considered to be inherently governmental and involve a wide range of options, including restructuring or reengineering of activities, privatization, and the termination of obsolete services or programs. The strategic sourcing approach provides for a complete functional or organizational assessment of functions and activities, but initially does not involve competition between the public and private sectors. However, a function may become a candidate for A-76 study after being reviewed under the strategic sourcing program. You asked us to review the Department's progress in implementing its A-76 program and the impact of strategic sourcing on the program. Accordingly, we assessed (1) progress the Department has made in achieving its A-76 goals and the extent to which strategic sourcing is affecting these goals and (2) the extent to which savings from A-76 and strategic sourcing are likely to be achieved.
Download or read book Competitive sourcing health benefits cost comparison had minimal impact but DOD needs uniform implementation process report to congressional committees written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dod Competitive Sourcing written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) A-76 study process, focusing on efforts by DOD to: (1) improve performance work statements, including encouraging the use of standard templates; and (2) implement other efforts to improve the competitive sourcing process, as well as gather and disseminate lessons learned that could benefit the competitive sourcing program DOD-wide. GAO noted that: (1) DOD has focused on improving the quality of its performance work statements, with limited emphasis on developing standardized work statements; (2) according to various DOD officials, the need to tailor performance work statements to individual circumstances and locations, as well as the increasing emphasis on grouping multiple activities for competitions under single solicitations, limits the usefulness of standardized work statements; (3) many officials stated that while previously developed work statements provide useful guidance, they are best used as a frame of reference for, but not in place of, developing new performance work statements; (4) in addition to efforts devoted to developing improved performance work statements, DOD components and activities are pursuing a variety of approaches on their own to improve competitive sourcing studies; (5) some of these may not shorten the study process, but they are intended to improve the efficiency and long-term cost-effectiveness of the process; (6) approaches range from combining multiple functions together under single solicitations to using new tools to improve the development of key A-76 documents; and (7) however, DOD and its components have devoted limited efforts and resources to documenting and disseminating lessons learned and best practices from the various efforts that could be useful DOD-wide.
Download or read book Dod Competitive Sourcing written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOD Competitive Sourcing: A-76 Program Has Been Augmented by Broader Reinvention Options
Download or read book Dod Competitive Sourcing written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) reported on its Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 studies in July 2000. GAO found that DOD generally complied with the reporting requirements that Congress had imposed on it. DOD took steps to ensure that the information it provided on 286 A-76 studies was complete and accurate. GAO determined that the information was generally consistent with data it had collected on other A-76 studies. However, because of historical weaknesses in DOD's database from which the data were obtained, GAO could not be sure of the data's accuracy. Overall, DOD reported that the A-76 studies over the five year period saved about $290 million in fiscal year 1999. GAO's work showed that savings were being achieved, but limitations in DOD's baseline cost data made it difficult to determine precisely how much was being saved. In addition, DOD reported that 40 percent of the A-76 studies resulted in contracts with the private sector. At the same time, the report indicated that only 23 percent of the studies resulted in outside contracts in 1999. This was considerably lower than in earlier years when contractors won most of the competitions.
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Download or read book Dod Competitive Sourcing written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.