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Goddard Space Flight Center: Decision to Contract for Plant Operations and Maintenance

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 12, 1993
Report No. NSIAD-93-92
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Summary:

This report reviews the impacts of the Goddard Space Flight Center's decision to contract out the operations and maintenance of its plant facilities. GAO compared the cost of the current mixed work force of civil service and contractor employees who do this work with the cost of (1) an all civil service work force and (2) an all contractor work force. GAO also looked at the benefits realized and the problems encountered by Goddard as a result of the contracting decision and the transitioning of some of the functions from a civil service staff to a contractor staff. Finally, GAO obtained information from Langley Research Center, which has a similar mix of contractor and civil service staff doing operations and maintenance work, to see if any lessons could be learned that might apply to Goddard.

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