Briefing Papers
The briefing paper Office of Communications Work
to Be Studied under A-76 was distributed to key Congressional staffers
during the first week of February, 2006.
A broader overview of the agency’s “competitive” outsourcing program is currently
under development.
The briefing paper Competitive Sourcing: What is the Value to the Taxpayer? was distributed to members of Congress in May, 2005. An electronic hyperlinked version such as that posted was also distributed on CD.
The briefing paper What is Competitive Sourcing? was distributed to members of Congress in May, 2004.
The True Costs of
Competitive Sourcing in the Forest Service According to this report, it cost the Forest
Service over $70,000,000 to run its “competitive sourcing” program in Fiscal
Year 2003. The Whitehouse Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) says the program is “customized [and] based on
considered research and sound analysis,” but the Forest Service admits that it
is based on arbitrary OMB quotas. [
On July 24, 2003, the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia held hearings on the Bush Administration’s so-called “competitive sourcing” initiative. The Forest Service Council submitted written testimony to the Subcommittee.
The briefing paper Competitive Sourcing Mandates
was distributed to members of Congress on
Talking Points: Effects of
over-outsourcing. General
government-wide concerns about rampant outsourcing of government work, taken in
large part from Paul Light’s book, The True Size of Government. [
GovExec is an excellent source for current information about the politics of A-76 and outsourcing.