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                                        FEB 151i


The onorable John n. Dingell
Chairran Subcommittee on tnergy and Powsr
Comittee on Interstate and Porsign Commerce
'luse of Representatives

Dear Mr. Chairmian
     we have reviewed the legality of two typest o1l con-
tracts in which you recently expressed interest. Quick
R ection Work Order (ORWO) master c trlst sad task
order contracts  the Department of Energ's us  of such
contracts was discussed In our recent report on that
agency's practices fr awarding and adminietering con-
tracts  £KD 80-2 ?onber 2. 197%.
     Vhile we conclude that the contracts are legal in
theory. we believe ME- should modify its use of them in
order to achieve a greitl-er degree of .ompetition as con-
taleted by the procuriment statutes and regulations.

OUJCW IttACIOR WORT OJWZRS   RACKGOUWD
     ORWO contracting is a relatively new procureent
sethod (althoqh it has ben used by the National Am-
oSutici and S  e adiistrationae Goddard Space ?i1t
Cester since 1963) and Ls not describ*d in current p
Ctflunt regulationa. DO   states that it ses 2R0 nester
contracts to purchase data gathering and analytical ser-
vices which it cannot perfonm in-house and which it
expects to need so urgently that they could not other-
wise be procured competitively,

     ORWO master contracts encosas broad, funetional
areas of work. On the basis of technical, business/
managennt. 4nd cost proposIs for suck areas of wotk,
DOE awards both a firm-fUAxd-price aster ontrat ad

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