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B-183079 1 (1978-04-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjkr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMFrROLLER GENERAL OF THE; iITED STATES WAS1I4DTON, D.C. 20545 D-183079 APR 19 1978 The Honorable Lawton Chiles, Chairman f( Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices and Open Government Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear fir, Chairman: ,7 As you will recall during our testimony on S. 12641 we supported the general objectives of the legislation and applauded jour initiative in intro- ducing the bill, We would like to reinforce this earlier testimony and pro- vide additional views. *S..1264 would carry out the main thrust of the Procurement Commission's recommenda tions: 9 --to modernize the Federal procurement process; --to develop a single, unified statutory and regulatory framework; and --to place much greater emphasis on use of competition. With respect to Section 509, we testified earlier that GAO supports eliminating unnecessary requirements. We quite agreo that whenever the use- fulness of Government surveillance and red tape cannot be demonstrated, they should be waived. Certainly, contractors working in a truly competitive environment would be a good starting place. One way to attack this problem would be to assign OFPP responsibility for making a Governmnt-wide review and reporting its findingo and recommendations to the Congress. We would support such an addition to S. 1264. As the farch 22, 1978, version of S. 1264 stands, we support the bill except that we continue to oppose the Cost AccountinG Standards waiver In Section 509(c) (3). PFiblic Law 91-379 established the Cost Accounting Standards Bo)rd an an agent uf the Congress to promulgate cost accounting standards designed to achieve uniformity and consistency in the cost accounting principleti followed bay defense contractors and subcontractors. tml, tLC

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