Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428922113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Assessing contractor use in Superfund : a background paper of OTA's assessment on Superfund implementation.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428922113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous waste management
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Assessing contractor use in Superfund
Author: US Cong Off Tech Assess...Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund
Author: Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government contractors
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous waste sites
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Superfund Contracts
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289147785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed contractor performance at 43 hazardous waste sites to determine if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had established adequate controls to ensure high-quality, cost-effective, and timely work under its Superfund remedial study contracts. GAO found that EPA: (1) lacked adequate information to evaluate contractors' work plans and proposed costs; (2) did not adequately monitor contractors' expenditures; (3) did not always perform required contract administration duties, such as reviewing contractor invoices and maintaining complete work assignment files; (4) believed that inadequate contractor performance resulted in cost increases at 22 sites, but challenged cost increases at only 4 sites; (5) believed that cost challenges were difficult and time-consuming and that the contracts required it to pay for costs the contractor incurred; (6) focused on timeliness and quality of remedial studies, rather than their costs; and (7) had options for dealing with increased costs, including negotiating with the contractor to absorb costs, authorizing the increase but not a corresponding increase in the base or award fee, not authorizing the increase, terminating the contract, or disallowing the questionable cost. GAO also found that the award fee process EPA used with remedial study contractors: (1) allowed a contractor to earn the majority of an award during the first phase of the award fee process, before it completed the study and before EPA could assess its quality; and (2) contributed to overall contracting difficulties, since EPA performance evaluation criteria did not require assessment of subcontracting management.
Superfund Contracts
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous waste sites
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund ARCS Contracting Process and Contractor Performance
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Sharing Power
Author: Donald F. KettlPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815720065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice. In fact, government has been doing just this for years: every major policy initiative launched since World War II has been managed by public-private partnerships. Yet such privatization has not solved government's problems. While there have been some positive results, thee has been far less success than advocates of market competition have promised. In a searching examination of why the "competition prescription" has not worked well, Donald F. Kettl finds that government has largely been a poor judge of private markets. Because government rarely operates in truly competitive markets contracting out has not so much solved the problems of inefficiency, but has aggravated them. Government has often not proved to be an intelligent consumer of the goods and services it has purchased. Kettl provides specific recommendations as to how government can become a "smart buyer," knowing what it wants and judging better what it has bought. Through detailed case studies, Kettl shows that as market imperfections increase, so do problems in governance and management. He examines the A-76 program for buying goods and services, the FTS-2000 telecommunications system, the Superfund program, the Department of Energy's production of nuclear weapons, and contracting out by state and local governments. He argues that government must be more aggressive in managing contracts if it is to build successful partnerships with outside contractors. Kettl maintains that the answer is not more government, but a smarter one, which requires strong political leadership to refocus the bureaucracy's mission and to change the bureaucratic culture.