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PLRD-82-58 1 (1982-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabdao0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Z .:I UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE N iWASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT. LOG ISTICS. AND READINESS DIVISION B-206599 MARCH 23,1982 The Honorable David A. Stockman Director, Office of Management and Budget Dear Mr. Stockman: Subject: Duplicate Programs to Identify Minority Businesses (PLRD-82-58) We would like to bring to your attention an area where similar programs exist and may in fact produce duplicate results. We identified this duplication during a survey of Federal agency activities designed to promote Government contracting with socially and economically disadvantaged businesses. Our objec- tive was to determine if activities run by the executive branch were duplicative. Of six agencies that we reviewed, we found that duplication existed among three of them. The Small Business Administration (SBA), the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), and the Department of Defense (DOD) are sponsoring, or have sponsored, programs designed to identify minority-owned businesses for the purpose of providing Government and private contracting opportun- ities. SBA's Procurement Automated Source System (PASS) began operating in October 1978 to collect the names, addresses, and general capabilities of nearly 60,000 small businesses, of which about 12,000 are minority owned. PASS' annual operating cost is estimated at $750,000. MBDA began operating its PROFILE system in August 1981 and has collected the same type information on about 9,000 minority-owned firms, regardless of size. The estimated cost for the first quarter of fiscal year 1981 was $38,700. DOD awarded a contract in March 1979 for a program to expand the participation of minority-owned business firms in the DOD acquisition program. The contract was to identify minority-owned business firms to DOD acquisition activities and to DOD prime contractors and to adequately describe the capabilities of each (942031) /2 °

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