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BY'THP COMPTROLLER GENERAL

Report To The Chairman, Subcommittee On Limitations

Of Contracted And Delegated Authority,

Senate Committee On The Judiciary

OF THE UNITED STATES                                  RELEASED




Competition Among Suppliers

In The P.L. 480 Concessional

Food Sales Program


Since fiscal year 1969, seven major grain firms                114158
have supplied most of the grain sold under the
federally financed P L 480 program  Other
firms and farmer cooperatives have been im
portant suppliers in several years, but recent
bidding statistics show that they compete only
sporadically

Program regulations basically provide all sup-
pliers an opportunity to participate, and the
Department of Agriculture has acted to encour-               .
age wider supplier participation GAO identi-
fied several barriers to greater industry partici-
pation and recommended remedies to the
Secretary of Agriculture

GAO analyzed two alternative legislative ap-
proaches for increasing participation Each                          . %,
would require changes in the philosophy of the
program and would involve disadvantages as
well
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                                                             DECEMBER 19 1980

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