Download or read book The Environmental Protection Agency Should Better Manage Its Use of Contractors written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environmental Protection Agency Should Better Manage Its Use of Contractors

Download or read book The Environmental Protection Agency Should Better Manage Its Use of Contractors written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural Resources and Environment written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) use of contractors to support its programs. GAO found that EPA has not: (1) monitored contractor activities to ensure that performance remains cost-effective; or (2) performed reviews to ensure that contractor employees are not establishing policy or performing other types of work traditionally reserved for federal employees. About 88 percent of EPA contracts are cost-reimbursable, which provides EPA maximum flexibility in accomplishing program objectives, but offers limited incentive for the contractor to control costs. GAO believes that EPA is missing opportunities to control costs through the increased use of fixed-price contracts. GAO also noted that EPA, contrary to its regulations, has directed contractors to perform work outside of the scope of their contracts and to award sole-source subcontracts to firms selected by EPA.

Download or read book The Environmental Protection Agency Should Better Manage Its Use of Contractors written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contracting at Environmental Protection Agency and Its Effect on Federal Employees written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EPA Contracting written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Compendium of GAO s Views on the Cost Saving Proposals of the Grace Commission Individual issue analyses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO examined issues studied and recommendations made by the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, better known as the Grace Commission, to determine whether: (1) the issues and recommendations made on program management and cost control had merit; (2) legislation would be necessary to implement the recommendations; (3) implementation efforts were completely underway; and (4) the savings estimates were realistic. GAO found that many of the issues studied and recommendations made by the Commission had overall merit and that, while many have already been implemented by legislative or administrative action, many more require additional legislative action to be fully implemented. However, GAO questioned the accuracy of many of the associated savings estimates, found flaws in the methodology used to develop some of the estimates, and found that the description of the methodology used in some estimates was insufficient to allow an assessment of its validity. In most of the instances where GAO questioned the methodology used, it believed that the savings were overstated. GAO supported management improvement issues more frequently than policy-oriented issues; however, policy-oriented issues constitute a large portion of the total estimated savings. GAO does not support restructuring federal subsidy programs and fixing federal health care costs to a percentage of the gross national product, and it disagreed with selected aspects of recommendations to reduce civilian and military retirement benefits. GAO support was most extensive in the areas aimed at strengthening federal management systems, federal automatic data processing operations, federal credit and cash management efforts, and civilian procurement and property management activities. GAO has made similar or related recommendations in nearly half of the areas in which it agreed with the Commission. Additional legislative action would be necessary to fully implement approximately half of the recommendations analyzed.

Download or read book Use of Consultants and Contractors by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contracting with the United States Environmental Protection Agency written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Contracts Management Division and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EPA Should Improve Controls for Managing Contractor Held Property written by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPA Should Improve Controls for Managing Contractor-Held Property

Download or read book Natural Resources and Environment written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) use of consulting services contracts to accomplish its mission. GAO noted that EPA: (1) heavily depended on contractors, with contracts accounting for about one-third of its total fiscal year (FY) 1989 budget estimates; (2) used more consulting services contracts for its Superfund program than for any other program; (3) reported using $2.4 million for consulting services contracts in FY 1987, although it had over $168 million in consulting services contract obligations for FY 1987; (4) ranked second highest among all federal agencies in the number of its consultant appointments; (5) underreported its use of consulting services contracts, due to its limited definition of consulting services, varying or narrow interpretations of that definition, and reporting system limitations involving contract costs, extent of services, and consultant appointments; (6) did not adhere to Office of Management and Budget guidelines in classifying consultant services contracts; and (7) submitted statutorily required evaluations of its progress in establishing effective management controls over consulting services and for improving the accuracy of reported information, but only reviewed contracts identified as consulting services contracts.

Download or read book Contracting at Environmental Protection Agency and Its Effect on Federal Employees written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Environmental Protection Agency s Grants Management 2003 2006 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency s Management Review of the Superfund Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean, and Water Protection and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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