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04319 - (B3354613]
Government Consultants: Stardard Definition and Uniform Data
Needed. FPCL-78-5; B-179810. November 29, 1977. 29 pp. +
appendix (19 pp.).
.taff study by H. L. Krieger, Director, Federal Personnel and
Compensation Div.
--sue Area: Personnel Management and Compensation (300) ; Federal
Procurement of Goods and Services (1900).
Contact: Federal Persunnel and Componsation Div.
Budget Function: General Government: Central Personnel
Management (805).
Organizaticn Concerned: Office of Aanajement and Budget; Civil
Service Commission.
Congressional Relevance: House Comwittee on Post Office and
Civil Service.
Authority, Advinistrative Expenses Act of 1946. 5 U.S.C. 3109.
F.P.M. ch. 304.
It is not possible to determine the extent of the use
of consultants by the Federal Government, at what costs, and for
what purposes. Five sources of centralized information were
identified: The Senate Committee on Appropriations; the Senate
Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting, and Management; two
divisions of the Office of Management ard Budget (OMB); and the
civil Service Commission (CSC). Although data availdble at these
sources vary considerablely, two data systems being developed
have the potential of improving the information. The Office of
'ederal Procurement Policy, OMB, Is developing an automated
system that will report much infortation on each Government
consultant coni '- over $10,000 and provide scme informa4!' on
contracts under amount. CSC is developinq a zs-6em to
replace its pert * file which will contain more data on
Federal employeeb -cinted consultants. Lack of
agreement by agenc- initions of consultants, witb zure
than 20 different del s noted, has made it impossible to
determine how many cr .As are used by the Federal
Government and at w' The Ccmptroller General has
suggested that an in-o_ ion system, rather than a reporting
system, be applied to ageacies to identify consultant usage. He
also recommended modification of the definition of consultant,
use of uniform data elements in data systems, and that ORB
should be the single authority for prescribing the standard
definition to be applied, data and files to be maintained, and
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