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GAO-09-113R 1 (2008-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanky0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 T E IAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 November 19, 2008 Congressional Committees Subject: Mandate on the Department of Defense's Contract Award Procedures for Directed Spending Items Section 830 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008' directed GAO to compare procedures used for awarding noncompetitive defense contracts for new projects pursuant to (1) congressionally directed spending items or congressional earmarks and (2) the special interests of senior executive branch officials. Specifically, it states: Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the use of procedures other than competitive procedures in the award of contracts by the Department of Defense. The report shall compare the procedures used by the Department of Defense for the award of funds for new projects pursuant to congressionally directed spending items, as defined in rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, or congressional earmarks, as defined in rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, with the procedures used by the Department of Defense for the award of funds for new projects of special interest to senior executive branch officials. To address the mandate, we obtained documentation and interviewed officials from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), each of the military services, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one combatant command, several subcommands, and other Department of Defense (DOD) agencies. We reviewed appropriation bills and related conference reports for fiscal years 2005 and 2008 and certain clauses of rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate and rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives that pertain to directed spending items and earmarks, respectively. We focused on these fiscal years because 2008 data are the most current data and because 2005 data were subject to the most extensive collection and analysis of directed spending items and earmarks by OMB and DOD. We also contacted officials and analyzed information from groups such as Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) GAO-09-113R Defense Contracting 'Pub. L. No. 110-181. Page 1

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