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Competition for hnqotiated Government Proourement Can and Should
Be improved. PSAD-77o1!2; B-16725. September 15, 1977. 17 pp. +
9 appendices j25 pp.).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Federal Procurement of Goods and Services (1900).
Contact: Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: Department of Defense -
Procurement & Contracts (058).
Organizaticn Ccncerned: Department of Commerce; Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare; Department of Housing and
Urban revelopment; Department of Labor; Department of
Transportation.
Congressional Relevance: Congress.
Authority: Federal Property ai.d Administrative Services Act of
1949. 41 U.S.C. 252(c).
As part of its oversight activities, the Congress
should require all Federal agencies to provide annual statistics
cn supplies and services procured through noncoupetitive
con+ract and information on actions taken to increase
comprititive procurements. The Department of Defense currently
discloses such information. By ldw, all agencies should formally
advertise for bids whenever possible. If a procurement office
determines that competition is not feasible, purchases may be
noncompetitively negotiated. An investigation of recent
noncompetitively negotiated procurements showed that many were
unjustified. Reccmmendations: The Secretaries of
Transportation, Ccmmerce, Housing and Urban Development, Labor,
and Health, Education, and Welfare should reduce noncompetitive
procurements by: eliminating conditions which discourage
competitive procurement; requiring that procurement offices be
notified as soon as requirements become known to maximize the
time availatle to obtain sclicitations; permitting only
authorized contracting officials to solicit proposals; and
requiring the procurement offices to publiciz, all proposed
procurements of $5,000 or more in the Cormercu Business Daily,
prepare written justifications for all noncompetitive
procurements over $10,000, and prepare and submit to tip
management annual reports of all noncompetitive procurements
over $10,000. The Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement
Pclicy, shculd take steps to insure that adequate and uniform
regulations are devcloped to enable all Federal agencies to
comply with the national policy to obtain competition whenever
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