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Shifting the Government's Automatic Data Processing Requirements to the Private Sector: Further Study and Better Guidance Needed

FGMSD-78-22 Published: Apr 11, 1978. Publicly Released: Apr 11, 1978.
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Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 states that, as national policy, the Government should rely on private enterprise to provide commercial or industrial products and services with specific exceptions. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), OMP, is concerned over the limited extent to which agencies have implemented the policy as it relates to their automatic data processing (ADP) requirements. The capabilities of the data processing services industry were studied to determine whether obtaining such services from this source is both feasible and in the best interest of Government and industry.

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