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B-195505 1 (1980-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjql0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLIER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 IN REPLY EERTO: B-195505 JAN 4 198. The Honorable William Carney House o 7 entt f . Dear Mr. Carney: This is in.-response to your letter of October 11, 1979, asking for our comments on H.R. 55257 The bill concerns the procurement and supply of personal pToperty and nonpersonal services by the Administrator of General Services. We believe the bill addresses in several ways the recom- mendations in our May 2, 1979, report on GSA's management of the multiple award schedule program (PSAD-79-11). We have, however, set forth in the enclosure to this letter, some matters for your consideration. Some of the bill's provisions are broadly drafted and could have a far-reaching impact on well-established aspects of the Federal procurement process. Members of your staff have advised us that the bill is intended solely to respond to our report on the multiple award schedule program. There- fore, we have recommended that some provisions be limited in applicability to the schedule context, and that certain other broad provisions be eliminated altogether. We also recommended in our May 2, 1979, report that the Congress put GSA under a mandatory timeframe for accomplishing management improvements. The multiple award schedule program is so big, and has been subject to such mismanagement, that it deserves special attention. We believe a complete review and evaluation of every item on the multiple award schedule pro- gram is necessary to determine whether the items are needed and the use of the scheduled procurement method is proper in each case. The sense of this recommendation could be incor- porated into H.R. 5525. Chairman Jack Brooks also wrote to us requesting comments on the bill, and we are providing a copy of these comments to him.

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