BNA's Web Watch - Competitive Sourcing

Congressional Testimony
U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Title: "Then and Now: An Update on the Administration's Competitive Sourcing Initiative" Date: 7/24/03

Witness Testimony
The Honorable Angela Styles, Administrator OFPP

The Honorable David M. Walker, Comptroller General, United States General Accounting Office

Dr. Jacques Gansler, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

Dr. Paul C. Light, Senior Fellow , The Brookings Institution

Charles Tiefer, Professor of Law , University of Baltimore

Competitive Sourcing and the Morale of Federal Employees Frank Camm RAND Senior Economist July 24, 2003 Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia United States Senate

Department of Defense – ARMY
Cast, Mike, “Aberdeen plans to form profitable company,” Army News Service, February 7, 2003,

General Accounting Office
Human Capital: A Guide for Assessing Strategic Training and Development Efforts in the Federal Government. (Exposure draft.) GAO-03-893G, July 2003.

July 24, 2003 Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate COMPETITIVE SOURCING Implementation Will Be Challenging for Federal
Agencies

COMPETITIVE SOURCING: Implementation Will Be Key to Success of New Circular A-76, GAO-03-943T (June 26, 2003)

U.S. General Accounting Office, Information Technology: DOD Needs to Leverage Lessons
Learned from Its Outsourcing Projects, GAO-03-37 (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 25, 2003);

U.S. General Accounting Office, Acquisition Workforce: Status of Agency Efforts to Address Future Needs,
GAO-03-55 (Washington, D.C.: Dec. 18, 2002).

U.S. General Accounting Office, A Model of Strategic Human Capital Management,
GAO-02-373SP (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 15, 2002);

U.S. General Accounting Office, Competitive Sourcing: Challenges in Expanding A-76
Governmentwide, GAO-02-498T (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 6, 2002).

U.S. General Accounting Office, Best Practices: Taking a Strategic Approach Could
Improve DOD’s Acquisition of Services, GAO-02-230 (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 18, 2002); GAO-02-230 (January 2002)

DOD COMPETITIVE SOURCING: Effects of A-76 Studies on Federal Employees' Employment, Pay, and Benefits Vary, GAO-01-388 (March 2001);

U.S. General Accounting Office, Privatization: Lessons Learned by State and Local
Governments, GAO/GGD-97-48 (Washington, D.C. Mar. 14, 1997);

Office of Management and Budget
COMPETITIVE SOURCING: Conducting Public-Private Competition in a Reasoned and Responsible Manner JULY 2003 Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget

Performance-Based Service Acquisition Contracting for the Future Interagency Task Force on
Performance-Based Service Acquisition Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget Office of Federal Procurement Policy (July 2003)

Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 (revised 5/29/03)

The Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act (FAIR), P.L. 105-270 Resources, Inventories, and Agency Guidance

Nongovernment Organizations

American University Law Review
Professor Steven L. Schooner, Fear of Oversight: The Fundamental Failure of Businesslike Government, 50 Am. U. L. Rev. 627 (2001).

Heritage Foundation
Moving Public Work To The Private Sector by Chris Edwards

IBM Endowment for The Business of Government
Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role of Government as the Provider, (June 2003)

SeaPort: A Charting a New Course for Professional Services Acquisition for America's Navy (June 2003)

“Public-Private Strategic Partnerships: The U.S. Postal Service-Federal Express Alliance” Oded Shenkar (May 2003)

Using Technology to Increase Citizen Participation in Government: The Use of Models and Simulation John O’Looney Gina Vega
Louis Brennan (April 2003)

Modernizing Human Resource Management in the Federal Government: The IRS Model (April 2003) James R. Thompson Hal G. Rainey

How Federal Programs Use Outcome Information: Opportunities for Federal Managers (April 2003) Harry P. Hatry Elaine Morley Shelli B. Rossman Joseph S. Wholey

“Assessing Partnerships: New Forms of Collaboration” Robert Klitgaard and Gregory F. Treverton (March 2003)

Chen, Yu-Che, and James L. Perry. “IT Outsourcing: A Primer for Public Managers.” IBM Endowment for The Business of Government (February 2003)

“Moving to Public-Private Partnerships: Learning from Experience around