Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76: Selected Issues (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised April 10, 2007 |
| Report Number |
RL32017 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
L. Elaine Halchin, Government and Finance Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
| Older Revisions |
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Summary:
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 provides guidance forfederal agencies on how to conduct public-private competitions. The outcome of acompetition determines who - government agency or private business - willperform commercial activities. (A commercial activity is a service that could beperformed by the private sector.) OMB Circular A-76 was issued initially in 1966;the Circular No. A- 76 Revised Supplemental Handbook was first issued in 1979. Thehandbook provided guidance for implementing Circular A-76 policy and includedprocedures for conducting A-76 cost comparisons. In 1999, the Federal ActivitiesInventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-270) was incorporated into thecircular and the handbook.The most recent A-76 revision, which was issued in 2003, is arguably the mostsignificant change to the circular and its supplement in the document's history. Therevision is one of several steps the Bush Administration has taken to further itscompetitive sourcing initiative.
