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Defense Procurement: Solicitation for Contract Support Services Limited Competition

NSIAD-90-150 Published: May 22, 1990. Publicly Released: May 22, 1990.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed a Navy contract award for field engineering services for the Terrier Guided Missile Launching System.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Naval Regional Contracting Center, San Diego, CA To promote full and open competition, the Commanding Officer, San Diego Naval Regional Contracting Center, should ensure that competition advocates at the Detachment review competitive procurement requests for which little or no competition has existed in the past, including changes to those solicitations.
Closed – Implemented
The Department of Defense (DOD) concurred and implementation of the recommendation has been directed.

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Competitive procurementIrregular procurementMissilesNaval procurementService contractsSolicitation modificationsSpecifications protestsMilitary forcesProcurementEngineering