Commercial Activities Panel
Commercial Activities Panel Final Report: Improving the Sourcing Decisions of the Government. [Summary] [Report, 4.2MB]
Section 832 of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for 2001, Pub. L. No. 106-398, mandates that GAO convene a panel of experts to study the policies and procedures governing the transfer of commercial activities for the federal government from government personnel to a federal contractor, including:
- procedures for determining whether functions should continue to be performed by government personnel;
- procedures for comparing the costs of performance of functions by Government personnel and the costs of performance of such functions by Federal contractors;
- implementation by the Department of Defense of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998; and
- procedures of the Department of Defense for public-private competitions pursuant to the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.