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GGD-95-142R 1 (1995-05-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackux0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-260088 May 10, 1995 The Honorable William M. Thomas Chairman, Joint Committee on Printing Congress of the United States Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to a request from the former Chair, Joint Committee on Printing, dated October 6, 1994, to determine whether appropriate government officials were alerted to changes in government printing requirements made by the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act of 1995. This act amended the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act of 1993 and expanded the act's definition of printing to include duplicating. As amended, the 1993 act requires that executive agency procurements of printing and duplicating services generally must be made by or through the Government Printing Office (GPO). In addition, the former Chair requested that we examine some of the agency procurements of printing and duplicating in fiscal year 1995 to indicate whether the agencies were implementing the new requirement. As agreed with the Committee, we reviewed selected guidance and procurements at the headquarters of seven executive branch departments (Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, the Interior, Transportation, the Treasury, and Veterans Affairs) that have significant amounts of printing and duplicating activities. In our limited review, we were to provide information on whether these departments (1) had alerted the appropriate officials of the requirements of the act and (2) were in the process of implementing the new requirement. (Details of our objectives, scope, and methodology are included as an enclosure to this letter.) RESULTS IN BRIEF On the basis of work at the agencies' headquarters, we found that in general, the seven executive branch departments we reviewed were aware of the new duplicating requirement and were in the process of implementing it. Widespread dissemination of our interpretation of the law stating that procurements of duplicating services GAO/GGD-95-142R, Document Duplicating Requirement /5ya /4 5F

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