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Copyright © 2001, Congressional Information
Service, Inc.
2 CIS H 401105
TITLE: Moving
Forward with
Services Acquisition Reform: A Legislative
Approach to Utilizing Commercial Best Practices
CIS-NO: 2002-H401-105
SOURCE: Committee on Government Reform. House
DOC-TYPE:
Hearing
Retrieve
the full text of testimony DATE: Nov. 1, 2001
LENGTH:
iii+172 p.
CONG-SESS: 107-1
ITEM-NO: 1016-A; 1016-B
SUDOC: Y4.G74/7:SE6/3
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-28945-3.
SUMMARY: Committee Serial No. 107-111. Hearing
before the Subcom on Technology and Procurement Policy to examine implementation
of reforms in services procurement process for Federal civilian and defense
agencies, and to assess the need for additional
service acquisitions
reforms. Also considers a draft bill, the
Services Acquisition Reform Act (SARA), to revise the Federal
procurement process.
Supplementary material (p. 150-172) includes
correspondence and submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Fed services procurement policies and
procedures, reform issues
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON TECHNOLOGY AND PROCUREMENT POLICY. HOUSE;
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT; ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND PROCEDURE; FEDERAL
DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; DEFENSE CONTRACTS AND
PROCUREMENT;
SERVICES ACQUISITION REFORM ACT; GOVERNMENT
EFFICIENCY
02-H401-105 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Nov. 1, 2001
p. 8-59
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WOODS, WILLIAM T. (Acting Director, Acquisition and
Sourcing Management, GAO)
PERRY, STEPHEN A.
(Administrator, GSA)
STYLES, ANGELA B. (Administrator,
Federal Procurement Policy, OMB)
LEE, DEIDRE A. (Director,
Defense Procurement, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, DOD)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Assessment of various SARA
provisions to improve Federal services acquisition; overview of GSA services
acquisition process; review of problem areas in Federal services acquisition,
with views on issues under consideration in SARA legislation; status of DOD
efforts to improve defense service acquisition process.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Fed services procurement policies and
procedures, reform issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION; OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
02-H401-105 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Nov. 1, 2001 p. 60-149
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
SOLOWAY,
STAN Z. (President, Professional Services Council)
WAGNER,
MARK (Vice President, Federal Government Affairs, Johnson Controls, Inc.; also
representing Contract Services Association)
DIPENTIMA,
RENATO (President, SRA Consulting and Systems Integration; representing
Information Technology Association)
MATHER, CHARLES (CEO,
Acquisition Solutions)
TIEFER, CHARLES (Professor, Law,
University of Baltimore Law School)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Support for SARA, with analysis of legislation components;
concerns regarding specific SARA provisions.
INSERTION:
-- Wall, Richard J. and Pockney, Christopher B.,
"Contracting for Commercial Professional and Technical Services: The Federal
Acquisition Streamlining Act's Unfinished Business" Federal Contracts Report,
July 17, 2001 (p. 75-93).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Fed services procurement process improvement measures
estab
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES COUNCIL; JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC.; CONTRACT SERVICES ASSOCIATION;
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION; ACQUISITION SOLUTIONS; FEDERAL ACQUISITION
STREAMLINING ACT
LOAD-DATE: February 3, 2003