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094484 1 (1969-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxmb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .~ ~ United States General Accounting Office Washington, D. C. 20548 For Release on Delivery Expected at 10 AM EST April 15, 1969 STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON MILITARY OPERATIONS 160 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON H.R. 474 TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: I appreciate your invitation to discuss H.R. 474 which would establish a Commission on Government Procurement. By letter of February 17, 1967, we furnished the Chairman, House Government Operations Committee, our comments and suggestions on the specific provisions of H.R. 157, a bill similar to H.R. 474. We included with that report an appendix setting forth some of the problem areas in Government procurement which we reccmmended for consideration by the Commission. Also, at the hearings on H.R. 157 before the Subcommittee on April 11, 1967, I stated the reasons why we felt that an overall study as proposed by the bill has merit. To reiterate, these reasons include: -- the piecemeal evolution of Federal procurement law is generally designed to solve or alleviate specific and sometimes narrow problems as they arise, fiO< Cc? / 6 2,

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