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116595 1 (1981-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacuyt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE OU, SUITE 300-D, 2420 W. 26TH AVENUE DENVER, COLORADO 80211 SEP 1 1 98i Mr. Tom Coston, Regional Forester U.S. Forest Service P.O. Box 7669 Missoula, Hontana 59807 Dear Mr. Coston: We have completed an examination of procurement practices and procedures used by the M1issoula Regional and Flathead National Forest Offices in awarding contracts. We made our review to evaluate the offices' efficiency and effective- ness in awarding formally advertised contracts. We also reviewed some nego- tiated contracts. The Missoula Regional Office and the Flathead National Forest Office issued about 130 formally advertised contracts totaling $5.8 million in fiscal year 1979. We reviewed the acquisition process for 34 formally advertised contracts totaling about $3 million. However, since we selected only open contracts for review, the ones selected were among those issued in 1979 and 1980. We also selected for review 12 negotiated contracts totaling about $362,000. .Ie discussed our findings with regional and forest-level procurement officials and considered their comments in preparing this letter. Although we did not attempt to determine the incidence of the findings beyond the contracts reviewed, we believe that the findings are sufficiently repre- sentative to require your attention. We believe that the Missoula Regional and Flathead National Forest Offices could have increased the number of bidders for their formally adver- tised contracts by complying with the Federal Procurement Regulations (PR) that require them to --make recommendations on ways to increase future competition when two or fewer bids are received and --publish synopses of proposed procurements within established timeframes. Noncompliance with these regulations can impede adequate competition. 0

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