Management
House votes to halt immigration services competition
Proponents say that 1,100 Citizenship and Immigration Service jobs should be shielded from competition.
Management
White House criticizes language in Interior appropriations bill
Administration has qualms about competitive sourcing and e-government provisions in an early version of the bill.
Management
Forest Service makes fresh beginning on job competition effort
OMB agrees to let agency off the hook on monitoring the results of dozens of small contests.
Management
Energy separates contracts for Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore
The University of California will need to enter multiple contests in order to keep running the federal nuclear laboratories.
Management
Senator takes aim at acquisition revolving door
Contracting officials may have to wait longer to join companies to which they’ve awarded large contracts.
Management
Defense Department spends more than $100 million on unused airline tickets
The Pentagon is exercising poor oversight of tickets purchased from central accounts, investigators find.
Management
Labor to publish job competition paperwork
One department is trying to improve the transparency of streamlined A-76 studies.
Management
Program review bill to be fine-tuned
Congressional staffers consider modifications, including language preventing the outsourcing of performance evaluations.
Management
Panel advances OMB procurement nominee, prison industries bill
David Safavian now awaits Senate approval.
Management
Congressional study finds increase in noncompetitive contracts
Research by Democrats shows such pacts are on the upswing, but procurement experts say the trend is not necessarily unexpected.
Management
Forest Service admits flaws in job competition effort
Agency has decided to hold off on initiating any new competitions this fiscal year.
Management
Bush administration touts savings from job competitions
OMB projects competitive sourcing initiative will save at least $1.1 billion over the next three to five years.
Management
Financial management upgrades may take years
Some agencies have been slow to move up in the Bush administration’s rankings because they’re in the midst of building new technology systems.
Management
Administration decries 'insourcing' measure
White House and Defense officials are critical of a union-backed effort to force a set percentage of contractors to defend their jobs against federal employees.
News
Long-awaited job competition appeals rights measure introduced
Federal employees would get greater opportunities to challenge agency decisions, and union involvement could grow.
Management
Agencies earn first green lights for job competitions
For the first time, agencies broke into “green-light” territory on the competitive sourcing component of OMB’s quarterly management scorecard.
Management
Environmental group challenges Forest Service job inventories
A nonprofit group in Oregon has added complaints about the Forest Service’s method of compiling FAIR Act inventories to a lawsuit disputing an agency decision to outsource analyst positions.
News
Senate bill would allow private tax collection
Private-sector debt collection companies would have to follow the same rules as federal agents.
Management
House panel backs union-supported changes in competitive sourcing
Measure paves the way for a broadening of federal employees' rights to protest outsourcing decisions.
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