Government Leader home>March 2005 issue March 2005; Vol. 1 No. 1 Competitive sourcing pays off Circular A-76, the Office of Management and Budget tool with which
agency employee groups compete with the private sector for conracts, is in
the black, OMB says. The savings haven’t come from outsourcing, strickly
speaking—employee organizations have won about 90 percent of the compeitions
over the last two years—but from the effects of the competitions
themselves. Although last year saw about a third as many A-76 competitions
as 2003, the total savings from the resulting contracts was actually higher.
“It’s hard to argue that this is not generating efficiencies,” said Office of
Federal Procurement Policy administrator David Safavian.
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