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087662 1 (1991-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactwh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General 111 fijil Ill/ of the United States 087662 Washington, D.C. 20548 February 28, 1991 The Honorable Vic Fazio Chairman, Subcommittee on Legislative Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: I As requested in the committee's report on the fiscal year 1989 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill, I am sending you our review of the advisability of expanded use of contractors to help with GAO's audit and evaluation work. As described in our earlier progress reports, briefings, and testimony to the Subcommittee, we established several trial contracts for the purposes of the test and evaluation requested by the Subcommittee. We reported in July 1989 on other inquiries we made about the use of contracting for audit and evaluation work by Inspectors General, the Office of Technology Assessment, and in earlier years by GAO. nthe-,test demonstrate that for a numbeofkind.of.work, :contracting..was -feasible and the selected ~ -ontraotrsduringtheatrial. period-typically could satisfyzGAQtsneed sfor:Eproducts of -acceptablelquality and ,price. Wefoundatwockinds.of-problems, which we would expect itfdimninis n: futuracyearst Withi. s6me- variation across the >different kinds eof. workgwe contrated' contractors often failed.todeliverproddicts- oagreed6upon dates an the fi al billingsfrequently exceded the original pricy. Considering onam etd'dit--and blvaidationasupp-ort,hy ,contracting fad. tat was a newcustome f the bohtr fd rs-, iwe-will1-.almost,.certainly- find. ways, ,to-,e stimate.m our ineeds betterAndobtain bettemcontractor performance in the fiife-as both evaluation- and--administrative staff gain ,more experience.--Theenclosed .report describes the rial period, the evaluatioidata, 6urconclusions-and their strengths and limitations, in more detail. Dppfound in our evaluation, I am satisfied thht~thetrial showed sufficient potential of exp-ahdedmGAO Bobf'actihg. With your support, we will continue in that direction in the coming years, using outside ass istance p.hpre, appropriate. . a askqdgAgatygcsts and ti1TeiT V &e tracked carefully to assure we t taih $ red -perf6:ait e4; we have expanded the training of our audit staff in contract management; and I have asked staff to review other recommendations made in the enclosed report.

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