Defense Outsourcing: The OMB Circular A-76 Policy

Grasso, Valerie Bailey

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Public contracts;    Department of Defense;    Government service contracts;    Executive departments;   

RP-ID  :  RL30392
RP-ID  :  RL30392 2003-04-09

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report provides information on the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Circular A-76, “Performance of Commercial Activities,” and the impact of a related reform initiative, the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act (FAIR) of 1998, within the Department of Defense. The Circular defines federal policy for determining whether recurring commercial activities should be outsourced to commercial sources, Governmental facilities, or through inter-service support agreements. The FAIR Act creates statutory reporting requirements for federal executive agencies, by requiring Federal executive agencies to identify activities “not inherently governmental” and consider outsourcing through managed competitions. However, FAIR does not require that agencies contract out these activities.