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                     UNf    STATES'GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFF
                            Washington, D. C. 20548

                                                            FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                                            Expected at 10 AMS1
                                                            Tuesday, Mlarch 14, Z97

                                   STATEMENT OF
                                 ELMER B. STAATS
                    COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                                   BEFORE THE
                     SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES #54Z1'  5
                       COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
                            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                       ON
                            H.R. 12807, 92d CONGRESS
              [PROCUREMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES
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  Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: BETDCMN            AVIBL

      We appreciate the invitation to appear before your Subcommittee to give our

  views on H.R. 12807, 92d Congress, 4ihich would amend the Federal Property and

  Administrative Services Act in order to establish Federal policy concerning
  the selection of firms and individuals to perform architectural, engineering,

  and related services for the Federal Government.

      As you know, Mr. Chairman, we testified before your Subcommittee on

  June 4, 1970, on H.R. 16443, 91st Congress, a similar bill to H.R. 12807.
  During that testimony we went into considerable detail as to the background of

  the report we made to the Congress on April 20, 1967, entitled Government-Aide
  Review of the Administration of Certain Statutory and Regulatory Requirements

  Relating to Architect-Engineer Fees. In that report we dealt with the 6-vercent

  fee limitation on architect-engineer services and the method of procurement of

  A-E services.
      With respect to the 6-percent fee limitation we concluded that the present

  statutory fee limitations are impractical and unsound principally because:
           -- The limitations are governed by estimated construction

               costs which do not necessarily relate to the value of
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