Contract Management: Guidance Needed to Promote Competition for Defense Task Orders

United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2004-07-30 monographic deposited born digital 31 p. GA 1.13:GAO-04-874 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874 P0b002ee1803a4a28 f:d04874 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874 GAO-04-874 Competition Competitive procurement Contract administration Defense procurement Department of Defense contractors Federal procurement policy Federal regulations Multiple award procurement Waivers GSA Federal Supply Schedule Other Written Product A11186 Contract Management: Guidance Needed to Promote Competition for Defense Task Orders The Department of Defense (DOD) spends billions of dollars each year acquiring services through task orders issued under multiple-award contracts or the General Services Administration's federal supply schedule program. However, previous GAO and DOD Inspector General reports found that DOD was not obtaining the level of competition on these task orders that Congress had envisioned. Congress responded by enacting section 803 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, which requires procedures to promote competition and provides when waivers of competition are allowed. In response to a congressional mandate, GAO identified the extent to which selected DOD buying organizations waived the competition requirements of section 803 and determined the level of competition on orders available for competition. For this review, GAO randomly selected 74 orders at five DOD buying organizations https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874.pdf GAO-04-874 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-04-874 Other Written Product GAO-04-874; Contract Management: Guidance Needed to Promote Competition for Defense Task Orders; Competition Competitive procurement Contract administration Defense procurement Department of Defense contractors Federal procurement policy Federal regulations Multiple award procurement Waivers GSA Federal Supply Schedule United States Public Law 65 (106th Congress) Public Law 106-65 United States Public Law 107 (107th Congress) Public Law 107-107