Procurement: Efforts Still Needed to Comply with the Competition in Contracting Act

Abstract

CICA requires that certain procedures be followed to assure agency officials and others of the appropriateness of agency decisions not to provide for full and open competition. We reviewed a random sample of 42 awards of this kind. Our results show significant improvement, compared to our previous review, regarding the procedures used and the assurance provided that such decisions were appropriate. However, as was the case in our previous review, we found widespread compliance problems concerning specific statutory and regulatory requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
AD1173305

Entities

People

  • Arthur J. Kendall
  • Barbara L. Wooten
  • James M. Fields
  • Kevin M. Tansey
  • Michael E. Motley
  • Paul F. Math
  • Russell R. Reiter
  • Titina C. Hay

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Commerce
  • Competition
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Errors
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Performance Tests
  • Personnel Management
  • Probability
  • Procurement
  • Sampling
  • Small Business
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistical Samples
  • Surveys
  • United States

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.