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25 Nov 2008     Agencies overstate savings from competitive sourcing A new report from the Government Accountability Office says agencies are overstating how much money they save when they let contractors compete for federal jobs, according to a story in Federal Times.

24 Nov 2008     GAO: Agencies overstate savings of competitive sourcing Agencies are overstating the savings they get when they allow contractors to compete for federal jobs, according to the Government Accountability Office.

24 Nov 2008     TSA scolded by Obama for $1.2B Lockheed award The TSA should have allowed agency employees to compete for the work, Obama wrote in an Oct. 20 letter to the American Federation of Government Em-ployees (AFGE).

19 Nov 2008     NTEU hopeful of change from Obama administration Federal employees are hopeful of dramatic improvements in policy that include reduced outsourcing of work and much more support for collective bargaining efforts under President-elect Barack Obama’s upcoming administration, the president of a federal employees' union said today.

17 Nov 2008     TRANSITION WATCH: OBAMA WILL CUT OUTSOURCING President Obama will reduce the number of contracts that outsource government work to private firms, according to a Washington Post report.

11 Nov 2008     In contracting, Obama will focus on oversight, transparency, ethics Obama pledges to review whether the government is over-reliant on contractors and said he already plans to cut contract spending by $40 billion. He has said the savings will be achieved through procurement reforms — such as using fewer cost-based contracts and requiring more competition — and contractor cuts.

06 Nov 2008     Obama wants changes to federal workforce President-elect Obama laid out ambitious plans for reorganizing the federal workforce during his campaign for the White House, but The Washington Post reports it's unclear how he plans to implement those changes or how successful he will be in doing so.

03 Nov 2008     Agencies improve internal processes On the latest Executive Branch Management Scorecard, agencies made the most improvements in commercial services management, which until July was called competitive sourcing, according to a quarterly review released today.

27 Oct 2008     EDITORIAL: THE CASE FOR THE STATUS QUO The coming transition could be especially trying for career executives because they have had eight years working under Bush administration policies and ini-tiatives — the President’s Management Agenda, competitive sourcing, lines of business and others.

22 Oct 2008     Government is doing worse at contracting with small businesses Agencies came up short in meeting their small-business contracting goals in 2007, according to a new federal report. Agencies awarded only 22 percent of their contracting dollars to small businesses, short of the governmentwide goal of 23 percent. That performance is worse than in 2006 when the government awarded 22.8 percent of contract dollars to small businesses.

14 Oct 2008     Also in the News: VA cancels contractor plans for GI Bill Contractors were reluctant to bid because of “external misconceptions” about the scope of the work involved, said VA Secretary James Peake. Outsourcing would have been faster and more efficient, VA officials had maintained, but now the VA’s own employees will take on the job, Air Force Times reports.

06 Oct 2008