Procurement Reform: Comments on Proposed Federal Acquisition Streamlining
Act (Testimony, 03/10/94, GAO/T-OGC-94-1).

By virtually any measure, the government's system of buying goods and
services does not work well. In GAO's view, any reform effort must be
guided by three principles: fostering intelligent decisionmaking that
takes advantage of commercial ingenuity and expertise, streamlining to
maximize the use of declining resources, and managing for results
instead of process. This testimony discusses S. 1587, the Federal
Acquisition Streamlining Act, which seeks to simplify and streamline the
government procurement process. GAO strongly supports this measure.
Except for the testing provisions, GAO believes that the bill represents
an important reform in the way the government buys its goods and
services.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-OGC-94-1
     TITLE:  Procurement Reform: Comments on Proposed Federal 
             Acquisition Streamlining Act
      DATE:  03/10/94
   SUBJECT:  Federal procurement policies
             Small business assistance
             Procurement evaluation
             Management information systems
             Federal procurement
             Procurement procedures
             Proposed legislation
             Procurement regulation
             Competition
IDENTIFIER:  Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act
             C-17 Aircraft
             
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