DOD Loses Many Competitive Procurement Opportunities
PLRD-81-45
Published: Jul 29, 1981. Publicly Released: Aug 12, 1981.
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Highlights
Both Congress and the Department of Defense (DOD) are concerned about the continuing trend toward noncompetitive DOD procurements. GAO studied opportunities for introducing competition in DOD procurements by analyzing a random sample of goods and services purchased by DOD agencies for the first time in fiscal year 1979 and studied the decision process which led to noncompetitive buying.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should give more emphasis to increasing competitive procurements by: (1) providing to contracting officers and program personnel more specific guidance on the factual support needed to justify noncompetitive procurement; (2) requiring that the services address the specific contracting problems identified in this report in their plans for improving competition and establish percentage improvement goals; and (3) establishing a systematic approach for monitoring procurement office goals and reviewing selected contracts and documentation to assure they were appropriately awarded. |
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| Department of Defense | The Secretary of Defense should require the Defense Nuclear Agency to take steps to reduce its use of early starts and unsolicited proposals as a way of contracting. |
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Competitive procurementContract costsCost controlDefense procurementIrregular procurementMonitoringSpecificationsWeapons systemsProcurementContracting officers