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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL


Report To The Honorable Stephen Solarz


House Of Representatives


OF THE UNITED STATES


DOD Loses Many Competitive

Procurement Opportunities


DOD awarded an estimated $289 million in
fiscal year 1979 contracts without obtaining
available competition. Contracting officers
often acquiesced to inappropriate noncom-
petitive procurement requests from head-
quarters or accepted, without adequate sup-
port, assertions made by technical and end-
user personnel. In all cases where competition
should have been obtained, contracting offi-
cers failed to follow proper contracting proce-
dures to make sure that only one company
could satisfy the procurement request.

GAO recommends that the Secretary of
Defense clearly specify the factual support
needed to justify noncompetitive procure-
ments, develop service plans establishing ob-
jectives for improving competition, and im-
plement a system for monitoring procurement
office progress in achieving these goals.








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