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D19372 1 (1973-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduzq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RICHARD R. PIERSONle,/ Procurement Commission Recommendations on Competitively Awarding Government Contracts The Commission on Government Procurement was created in November 1969 to study and to recommend to the Congress methods to promote the economy, efficiency, and effective- ness of procurement by the executive branch of the Federal Government. The Commission's study was completed and its jour.volume report was submitted to the Congress in December 1972. This article summarizes and explains the rationale behind some of the Commission's recommendations on competitive methods of awarding contracts and proposes certain modifi- cations to the recommendations. It is based on a speech by the author before the American Bar Association's National Institute on the Report of the Commission on Government Procurement, Washington, D.C., May 31, 1973. This exposition has three simple purposes-to suggest the practical ap- plications of some of the recommenda. tions concerning the competitive award of contracts, to point out in other cases what the recommendations do not cover, and to offer for general consideration some modifications of the recommendations. Formal Advertising The Commission recommends that agencies be required to use formal advertising for contracts over $10,000 when procurement circumstances jus- tify its use and that, when advertising is not used, the contracting officer, or in a few sole-source procurements Mr. Pierson is the assistant general counsel in charge of the recently created Special Studies and Analysis Section of the Office of the General Counsel He is a graduate of Duke University and the law school of Columbia University and was an associate general counsel on the staff of the Commission on Government Procurement.

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