TITLE: Next Steps in Services Acquisition Reform: Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future

CIS-NO: 2002-H401-38  
SOURCE: Committee on Government Reform. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: May 22, 2001  
LENGTH: iii+144 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1016-A; 1016-B  
SUDOC: Y4.G74/7:AC7/15  
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2002-11171  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-28025-1.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-39. 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.
 
Supplementary material (p. 98-144) includes submitted statements correspondence, and witnesses' written replies to Subcom questions.

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

02-H401-38 TESTIMONY NO: 1     May 22, 2001 p. 8-97
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   COOPER, DAVID E. (Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, GAO)
   OLIVER, DAVID R., JR. (Principal Deputy Under Secretary, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, DOD)
   DRABKIN, DAVID A. (Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of Government-Wide Policy, GSA)
   KELMAN, STEVEN (Professor, Public Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
   MUTEK, MICHAEL W. (Senior Vice President, Raytheon Technical Services Co.; representing Professional Services Council)
   WAGNER, MARK (Director, Federal Government Affairs, Johnson Controls, Inc.; representing Contract Services Association)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Review of trends and challenges in services acquisition; assessment of Federal efforts to meet services acquisition challenges, with recommendations; status of DOD efforts to improve defense service acquisition process; explanation of GSA actions to implement acquisitions reform and train acquisitions workforce.
   Perspectives on Federal use of performance based contracting; background and issues associated with services acquisition reform.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Fed procurement policies and procedures, reform issues
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   PROFESSIONAL SERVICES COUNCIL; CONTRACT SERVICES ASSOCIATION; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING; FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

LOAD-DATE: February 3, 2003