Contract management


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Contract Management


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The Department of Defense (DOD) is the federal government's largest purchaser of contractor services, spending $118 billion in fiscal year 2003 alone--an increase of 66 percent since fiscal year 1999. DOD is expected to rely increasingly on contractors to carry out its mission. In recent reports, DOD has identified inadequate surveillance on service contracts. This report examines how DOD manages service contract surveillance. It looks at the extent of DOD's surveillance on a selection of service contracts, reasons why insufficient surveillance occurred, and efforts to improve surveillance.




Interagency Contracting


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Fed. agencies have turned to interagency contracts (IC) -- where one agency places an order under an existing contract for another agency -- as a way to streamline the procurement process. IC can offer benefits of improved efficiency, but this approach needs to be effectively managed. This report reviewed the process that the DoD used to acquire interrogation & certain other serv. through the Dept. of the Interior to support mil. oper. in Iraq. On behalf of DoD, Interior issued 11 task orders, valued at $66 million, on an existing contract. This report identifies breakdowns in the procurement process, contributing factors that led to the breakdowns, & the extent to which recent actions by Interior & DoD address these contributing factors. Illus.




Managing the Private Spies


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The extensive use of contractor personnel to augment military intelligence operations is now an established fact of life and, occasional contracting scandals notwithstanding, any effective and effi cient design for intelligence support to operating forces must provide for their use. The author suggests evaluation standards for the use of contractors and possible long-term initiatives to reduce dependence on traditional outside contractors.




Interagency Contracting


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Congressional Record


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Curt Verschoor on Ethics


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Curt Verschoor On Ethics is a compilation of the best business ethics columns that will continue for years forward to be of lasting educational value. In a company setting, the columns can function as the basis for discussion on proper business ethics. In academia, the columns can serve as assigned readings over significant ethics events and issues. Some topics that are covered in the columns include: Value of a Strong Ethical Culture Studies of Ethical and Unethical Culture Public and Management Accounting Ethics Ethics of Executive Compensation International Ethics Standards Fraud Case Studies Small Organization Fraud Studies Regulation and Enforcement Whistleblowing Sustainability and Integrated Reporting Tax Avoidance Issues




GAO Documents


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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States


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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".