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B-306050 1 (2006-04-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczml0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 B-306050 April 28, 2006 The Honorable Tom Davis Chairman, Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives Subject: Procurement Provisions in Appropriations Acts Dear Mr. Chairman: Legislation such as the Competition in Contracting Act and the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act established a comprehensive acquisition framework to accommodate the needs of individual agencies while maximizing uniformity across the federal government. In your letter of July 1, 2005, you noted the committee's concern about the potential impact of other legislation on Congress's efforts to promote a consistent, government-wide approach to procurement and asked GAO to review procurement related provisions appearing in recent appropriations legislation. Based on discussions with your staff, we agreed to identify and summarize procurement related provisions in several major annual appropriations acts over the past few years. In total, we examined thirty appropriations acts, or relevant divisions of consolidated acts, covering the Department of Defense (Table 1); Foreign Operations (Table 2); Interior (Table 3); Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development (Table 4); Transportation and Treasury (Table 5); and Homeland Security (Table 6). Our review encompassed legislation passed for fiscal years 2001 through 2005. We defined procurement-related provisions as those pertaining to the acquisition of goods or services by contract with appropriated funds. In this regard, we did not include provisions pertaining exclusively to grants or cooperative agreements, provisions dealing with acquisition of real property, provisions imposing programmatic restrictions, and provisions concerning nonappropriated fund acquisitions. Generally, the provisions we included in the enclosed tables created new acquisition requirements, carved specific exceptions to existing requirements, or reiterated existing requirements. Although we found a wide variety of procurement related provisions, three distinct categories emerged in our review: domestic preferences, notification and reporting

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