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B-174518 1 (1972-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagps0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLTER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES / WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-174518 JAN 2 5 1972 D' ear Senator Proxmire: LM096689 This is in response to your letter of November 10, 1971, in which you referred to this Office a letter from the National Federation of 6. /413 Federal Employees (NFFE) concerning allegations of irregularities and ssibeo in the r f cotract at VMndenberg Air Force Base, California. As informally agreed with your office, we met with and interviewed Mrs. Marie Brogan, president of the local chapter of NFFE, and other union members on December 14, 1971, at Vandenberg, to determine whether they had any evidence supporting the complaints quoted in the NFFE letter. Neither Mrs. Brogan nor her associates could provide us with such evidence. We discussed the operations at Vandenberg with contract management officials who informed us that the Space and Missile Test Center (SAMTEC) P. )IF f of the Air Force Systems Command administered the Western Test Range. Since 1966 the Federal Electric Corporation has been providing contractor services for the operation and maintenance of the range's technical facil- ities under a 3-year contract, extended for 2 additional years, at a cost of $20 million to $25 million a year. The contract expired on August 1, 1971, but was further extended on a sole-source basis for 11 months at an estimated cost of $23.6 million. The contract for these services be- ginning on July 1, 1972, is in process of negotiation. The NFFE letter stated that the award of the operation and mainte- nance contract would be costly and wasteful to the Government and that it would be another example of contracting out when there were Federal civil service employees already on the payroll who were extremely highly qualified. Mrs. Brogan stated that an additional effect of contracting for these services was that, over the last 1- years, civil service positions at SAMTEC were reduced from 2,500 to 1,800 while there was a general increase in contractor personnel. Mrs. Brogan and her associates were unable to provide us with any documentation to support these state- ments. They indicated that they planned to compile additional evidence and forward it to the NMFE national headquarters. BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE

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