United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-03-17 monographic deposited born digital 36 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-95-54 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54 P0b002ee18038b962 f:ns95054 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54 NSIAD-95-54 Army procurement Federal procurement policies Procurement evaluation Helicopters Procurement procedures Documentation Equipment contracts Procurement regulation Defense operations National Performance Review Army New Training Helicopter UH-1 Helicopter DOD Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System Letter Report NSIAD GAO reviewed the procedures the Army used to procure its New Training Helicopter (NTH), focusing on: (1) the differences between the Army's and private sector's procurement procedures; (2) Army efforts to streamline the NTH procurement; and (3) whether the NTH acquisition could be used as a baseline against which to implement futher acquisition improvements.<p/>GAO found that: (1) the Army's NTH acquisition took longer, involved more people, and generated significantly more paperwork than the private sector's acquisition of similar helicopters; (2) the Army's NTH procurement was more complicated than the private sector's procurement because the Army had to comply with more extensive and less flexible system requirements and numerous laws, regulations, and documentation requirements; (3) the Army streamlined its NTH acquisition process by employing more commercial-type practices, modifying existing commercial helicopters, using commercial standards in lieu of military specifications and standards, and reducing some solicitation data requests, contract clauses, and documentation requirements; (4) the Army could have further improved the NTH acquisition by approving deviations and waivers in a more timely fashion and further reducing contractors' paperwork requirements; (5) the Army needs to implement the reforms called for in the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act to further reduce the differences between the Army's and commercial sector's acquisition process; (6) the act's commercial preferences and procurement regulation exemptions should significantly expand and simplify the Army's procurement of commercial items; and (7) although the NTH acquisition could be used as a baseline to implement further commercial acquisition practices, it would not be an appropriate baseline to implement procurement improvements for combat or other missions, since these missions can only be satisfied by unique development efforts. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54.pdf GAO/NSIAD-95-54 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-95-54 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-95-54; Acquisition Reform: Comparison of Army's Commercial Helicopter Buy and Private Sector Buys; Army procurement Federal procurement policies Procurement evaluation Helicopters Procurement procedures Documentation Equipment contracts Procurement regulation Defense operations National Performance Review Army New Training Helicopter UH-1 Helicopter DOD Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System Public Law 103-355