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089406 1 (1972-03-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvjt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 Loo CIVIL DIVISION MAR 2 4 1972 Dear Mr. Zarb: In recent months, the General Accounting Office has issued several reports to the Congress dealing with the problems experienced by other Federal agencies in administering and using the results of study and evaluation contracts. The similarity of the problems encountered by these agencies and the high congressional interest in this subject occasioned our undertaking a preliminary survey of the study and evaluation activities of the Manpower Administration. In performing our survey we were primarily concerned with the usefulness of study and evaluation reports and the impact that such evaluations have on the manpower programs operated by the Department of Labor. Our survey also considered, although to a lesser extent, selected aspects of the Manpower Administration's research and experimental and demonstration activities. As you know, all three of these activities-- studies and evaluations, research, and experimental and demonstration projects--fall within the immediate management responsibility of the Manpower Administration's Office of Policy, Evaluation, and Research (OPER). During the initial stages of our survey, we became aware that over the past year OPER had taken a number of actions designed to strengthen the usefulness of study and evaluation, research, and experimental and demonstration reports and to improve the contract administration of such efforts. Although each of these actions is in a different stage of development and implementation, we believe they offer the Department the potential for significantly improved operations. Accordingly, we have decided to discontinue further survey effort at this time., We did, however, make several observations on matters which we believe may be of interest to and warrant the attention of the Manpower Administration. These observations, as well as a description of the recent actions taken by OPER to improve its operations, are discussed briefly below. RECENT ACTIONS TAKEN TO STRENGTHEN THE ADMINISTRATION AND USEFULNESS OF EVALUATION, RESEARCH, AND DEMONSTRATION PRODUCTS Early in calendar year 1971, OPER assigned to its Division of Policy Studies and Analysis the responsibility to critically examine all study and evaluation reports--normally the products of contracted efforts-- and to identify and evaluate those aspects of the reports that have significant policy implications for the Department's manpower programs.

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