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October 8, 2012 By AMK

Agencies should file better reports on their service contracts, GAO says

The Obama administration’s effort to better calibrate which functions are inherently governmental and which are better contracted out will require improvements in agency inventories of service contracts, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.

Forty eight of the 49 agencies that GAO reviewed had filed the required lists of their contracts for such services as professional management support, information technology support and medical support, which together totaled $126 billion in fiscal 2011. But due to differing methodologies among agencies, the Office of Management and Budget and Congress could not “meaningfully use these service contract inventories to compare service contract obligations among agencies or develop spending trends,” the report said, adding, “agencies did not have a complete universe of service contracts to consider for review.”

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Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: DHS, GAO, GSA, HHS, information technology, inherently governmental functions, IT, management support service, medical support, NASA, OFPP, reporting requirements, service contracts

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