Small Business Contracting: Updated Guidance and Reporting Needed for Consolidated Contracts
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the General Services Administration (GSA) - which accounted for more than 80 percent of the consolidated contracts reported by all federal agencies in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 - do not know the full extent to which they are awarding consolidated contracts. This is the result of contracts being misreported in the federal procurement data system. GAO reviewed 157 contracts - more than half of all DOD and GSA contracts that were reported as consolidated - and found that 34 percent of the DOD contracts and all of the GSA contracts in fact were not consolidated. GAO also identified four DOD contracts with consolidated requirements that were not reported as such.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- AD1169717
Entities
People
- Cheryl M. Harris
- Danielle Green
- Jennifer Dougherty
- Jenny Shinn
- Julia Kennon
- Paige Smith
- Roxanna Sun
- Sylvia Schatz
- W. W. Russell
- William Shear
- William T. Woods
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office