Download or read book Telecommunications GSA s Difficulties Managing FTS 2000 written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Telecommunications written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 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.

Download or read book Federal Telecommunications Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Download or read book FTS2001 transition challenges jeopardize program goals written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you know, telecommunications services are increasingly critical in transforming the way the federal government conducts business, communicates internally and externally, and interacts with citizens, industry, and state, local, and foreign governments. Electronic government services based on reliable, secure, and cost-effective telecommunications can enable agencies to streamline the way they conduct business, reduce paperwork and delays, and increase operational efficiencies. They also offer the potential for building better relationships between government and the public by making interaction with citizens smoother, easier, and more efficient. Accordingly, it is important that a far-reaching program like the FTS2001 program take full advantage of new services offered by industry; that agencies effectively and efficiently implement these telecommunications services to improve operations; and that the program be successfully implemented in order to maximize benefits to the taxpayers. The FTS2001 program is the successor to FTS 2000, which provided long distance telecommunications services to federal agencies. While federal agencies were required to use the FTS 2000 program for their long distance telecommunications, FTS2001 is not mandatory. The program relies instead on its ability to provide good services at low prices as a means of attracting and retaining federal customers. Under the FTS2001 program strategy, the General Services Administration (GSA) would also award contracts for local-area telecommunications services and ultimately might allow those contractors to offer both local and FTS2001 long distance services.

Download or read book FTS 2000 Overhead written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988 the General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) 2000 contracts to two vendors--AT & T and U.S. Sprint--to provide state-of-the-art telecommunications services to federal agencies. GSA's oversight costs for the program, which totaled more than $53 million in fiscal year 1991, are billed to the agencies in the form of an overhead charge. The direct costs of GSA's oversight of the program account for nearly two-thirds--about $34 million--of the total overhead. GAO questions the worth of some of the management and oversight duties demanded of GSA in the FTS 2000 contracts. For instance, GSA is required--at an annual cost of more than $4 million for facilities and more than $16 million for personnel--to run separate service oversight centers for each vendor. Consolidating these centers could slash operating and personnel costs. Additionally, GSA monitors network operations--a function that vendors essentially do already. In its upcoming management review of the FTS 2000 program, GSA has an opportunity to revisit the original program requirements and decide their present validity. GSA could also reduce overhead costs by streamlining some operations. For example, GSA's contract for reporting service trouble, which adds $1 million annually to the program overhead tab, may be unnecessary because the FTS 2000 vendors can provide the same service. Lastly, GSA's processing of vendor bills is inefficient and has led to unnecessary billing disputes.

Download or read book Year 2000 Problem and Telecommunications Systems written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book NTIA Telecom 2000 written by United States. National Telecommunications and Information Administration and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Interim Report of the Activities of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight One Hundred Fifth Congress First Session 1997 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interim Report of the Activities of the House Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sharing Power written by Donald F. Kettl and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice. In fact, government has been doing just this for years: every major policy initiative launched since World War II has been managed by public-private partnerships. Yet such privatization has not solved government's problems. While there have been some positive results, thee has been far less success than advocates of market competition have promised. In a searching examination of why the "competition prescription" has not worked well, Donald F. Kettl finds that government has largely been a poor judge of private markets. Because government rarely operates in truly competitive markets contracting out has not so much solved the problems of inefficiency, but has aggravated them. Government has often not proved to be an intelligent consumer of the goods and services it has purchased. Kettl provides specific recommendations as to how government can become a "smart buyer," knowing what it wants and judging better what it has bought. Through detailed case studies, Kettl shows that as market imperfections increase, so do problems in governance and management. He examines the A-76 program for buying goods and services, the FTS-2000 telecommunications system, the Superfund program, the Department of Energy's production of nuclear weapons, and contracting out by state and local governments. He argues that government must be more aggressive in managing contracts if it is to build successful partnerships with outside contractors. Kettl maintains that the answer is not more government, but a smarter one, which requires strong political leadership to refocus the bureaucracy's mission and to change the bureaucratic culture.

Download or read book Nominations of Daniel R Stanley David J Barram and Mary A Terrell written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Interim Report of the Activities of the House Committee on Government Operations One Hundredth Congress First Session 1987 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Reports and Testimony written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: