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June 29, 2017 By AMK

OMB ‘out of practice’ on competitive sourcing, adviser says

Preliminary moves by the White House to ease the moratorium on reviewing federal jobs for outsourcing under the guidelines in Circular A-76 have drawn some skepticism within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Linda Springer, President Trump’s senior adviser on management issues who recently announced her June 30 retirement, told reporters during a June 15 briefing on curbing agency reporting requirements that her “personal view is that OMB is out of practice in running those competitions [for whether the public or private sector should perform work]. Before undertaking it,” she said, “it would be better to do some educating.”

OMB Circular A-76, which dates to 1966 before being revised, outlines a “formal, complex, and often lengthy process for managing public-private competitions to perform functions for the federal government,” as a Congressional Research Service report phrased it.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2017/06/omb-out-practice-competitive-sourcing-adviser-says/138838

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: A-76, inherently governmental functions, insourcing, OMB, outsourcing

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