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Competitive Contracting: The Understandability of FAIR Act Inventories Was Limited

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 14, 2000
Report No. GGD-00-68
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Summary:

The Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998 requires government agencies to submit each year to the Office of Management and Budget inventories of activities that, in the judgment of the agency head, are not inherently governmental functions. This report describes the initial implementation of the FAIR Act and examine inventories of inherently governmental activities at the following agencies: the Departments of Commerce and Transportation, the General Services Administration, and the Environmental Protection and Federal Emergency Management Agencies. GAO (1) describes the act's initial implementation, (2) analyzes the clarity and understandability of FAIR act inventories at the five agencies, (3) examines the extent to which these agencies exempted commercial activities from competition, and (4) identifies supplemental information that enhances the understandability of the agencies' inventories.

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