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Department of Energy: Challenges to Implementing Contract Reform

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 21, 1994
Report No. RCED-94-150
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Summary:

This report to the Secretary of Energy summarizes GAO's views on her Contract Reform Team's 1994 report entitled Making Contracting Work Better and Cost Less. The Reform Team acknowledges that weaknesses in the Energy Department's (DOE) "contracting practices are significant and systemic." In GAO's view, the Team's recommendations--more than 45 in all--represent a bold step forward for DOE and address many of GAO's long-standing concerns. These suggestions include using performance-based measures to evaluate contractors, providing more incentives to motivate behavior, and reducing strict reliance on cost contracts. The challenge facing DOE's leadership will be to develop a strategy for making these reforms a reality. Overcoming workforce and management information weaknesses--essential prerequisites for change--is a major hurdle for DOE.

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