FEDERAL CONTRACTING: Improvements Needed in How Some Agencies Report Personal Services Contracts

Abstract

Contractors hired under personal services contracts operate like government employees. The federal government reported spending about $1.5 billion on personal services contracts for FYs 2011-2015. The Air Force, Army, Navy, and USAID together were responsible for most of this reported spending. We found that USAID spent over $123 million on these contracts in FY 2015. However, we could not confirm how much DOD spent on them because the Air Force and Army did not record these contracts accurately in federal databases. We recommended that the Air Force and Army take steps to ensure that personal services contracts are recorded accurately.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1154544

Entities

People

  • William Woods

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Congress
  • Contract Administration
  • Contracted Services
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Government Employees
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Governments
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • United States Government

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  • Library and Information Science
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting