Competitive Contracting the Understandability of Fair Act Inventories Was Limited

By United States Department of the Treasury

Book Id: WPLBN0000228578
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Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Competitive Contracting the Understandability of Fair Act Inventories Was Limited
Author:	United States Department of the Treasury
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Tax & accounting series, Internal Revenue Service publication
Collections:	Government Library Collection, U.S. Department of the Internal Revenue Service
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Publisher:	United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service


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Excerpt
Excerpt: As requested, this report describes the initial implementation of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998 and examines selected agencies? inventories of noninherently governmental activities. These agencies are the Departments of Commerce and Transportation, the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Environmental Protection and Federal Emergency Management Agencies. The FAIR Act became law on October 19, 1998, requiring executive agencies to submit each year to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) inventories of activities that, in the judgment of the head of the agency, are not inherently governmental functions. OMB?s Circular A-76, which establishes federal policy for the executive branch?s performance of commercial activities, includes detailed procedures for competitively determining whether commercial activities should be performed by federal employees or the private sector. As our October 1999 testimony discussed, implementation of the FAIR Act is in its early stages...