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GAO-02-1022R 1 (2002-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaambb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: £ 0 G A 0 Comptroller General ----Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 August 9, 2002 The Honorable George V. Voinovich Ranking Member Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: Commercial Activities Panel: Use of Numerical Goals Dear Senator Voinovich: I am pleased to provide the following response to your letter of August 5, 2002, requesting my views on two competitive sourcing initiatives. Specifically, you asked me to address whether the two initiatives are consistent with the sourcing principles recommended by the Commercial Activities Panel (the Panel) in its April 30, 2002, report entitled Improving the Sourcing Decisions of the Government. The two initiatives are: 1) the Administration's performance target that federal agencies compete or directly convert to private-sector performance specified percentages of their full-time equivalent positions listed under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act (FAIR) by specified dates, and 2) section 640 of S. 2740, the Fiscal Year 2003 Treasury and General Government Appropriations bill, which would restrict the availability of funding for the use of numerical goals, targets, or quotas for public-private competitions or direct conversions. As discussed below, I do not believe that, based on their current design, either of these initiatives is fully consistent with the sourcing principles adopted by the Panel. As you know, I convened and chaired the 12-member Commercial Activities Panel in response to the requirements of section 832 of the Fiscal Year 2001 National Defense Authorization Act. The Panel consisted of senior representatives from the groups most affected-agencies, federal employees, and private industry-as well as other individuals with a broad range of relevant experiences and expertise. The Panel heard and carefully considered all perspectives on the issues and unanimously agreed upon a package of 10 principles that should guide decisions in this area. Although several of the recommended principles are relevant to your inquiry, the most relevant is that federal sourcing policy should avoid arbitrary full-time equivalent (FTE) or GAO-02-1022R Commercial Activities Panel

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