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  title info:
    title: Contract management
    sub title: minimal compliance with new safeguards for time-and-materials contracts for commercial services and safeguards have not been applied to GSA Schedules Program : report to congressional committees
  title info:
    title: Contract management
    sub title: minimal compliance with new safeguards for time and materials contracts for commercial services and safeguards have not been applied to General Services Administration Schedules Program
  title info:
    title: Minimal compliance with new safeguards for time-and-materials contracts for commercial services and safeguards have not been applied to GSA Schedules Program
  title info:
    title: T&M contracts for commercial services
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Government Accountability Office.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (iii, 41 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Federal agencies have used time-and-materials (T&M) contracts to purchase billions of dollars in services. These contracts are risky because the government bears the risk of cost overruns. Effective February 2007, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) was revised, pursuant to a statutory change, to allow T&M contracts to be used to acquire commercial services under FAR Part 12, which uses a streamlined procurement process. Certain safeguards were included in FAR Part 12, including a requirement that contracting officers prepare a detailed determination and findings (D&F) that no other contract type is suitable. Based on a mandate to review the use of T&M contracts for commercial services, we assessed (1) agencies' reported use of such contracts and what they acquired, (2) the degree to which agencies complied with the new safeguards, and (3) the applicability of the safeguards to General Services Administration (GSA) schedule contracts. GAO reviewed contracts and orders at DOD and civilian agencies and spoke with contracting officials. GAO recommends that OFPP take steps to clarify the FAR regarding labor-hour contracts and to explicitly apply the Part 12 safeguards to the GSA schedules program, and that it provide guidance to contracting officials on the Part 12 D&F. In oral comments, OFPP agreed with our recommendations. The other six agencies in our review also concurred or had no comment.
  note: Title from cover screen (GAO, viewed June 28, 2009).
  note: "June 2009."
  note: "GAO-09-579."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Office of Federal Procurement Policy
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: General Services Administration
    genre: Rules and practice
  subject:
    topic: Public contracts
    geographic: United States
    topic: Costs
  subject:
    topic: Government purchasing
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Letting of contracts
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  classification: GA 1.13:GAO-09-579
  identifier: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS114561
  record info:
    record content source: DID
    record creation date: 090628
    record change date: 20211202192025.0
    record identifier: in00002519000