federal_register: 02-11139
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| 02-11139 | Competition in Contracting; Contract Bundling | Notice | The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing federal agencies' use of competition in their contracting activities. Although "full and open" competition remains the general rule when agencies acquire goods and services, a variety of legislative, regulatory, and policy initiatives, implemented primarily over the past decade, authorize competition on a significantly more restricted and informal basis. The purpose of this review, which has been called for by the White House, is to identify steps for ensuring that agency competition practices facilitate access to the full range of marketplace capabilities--especially those of small businesses--to consistently achieve good quality at lower cost to the taxpayer. This review will occur in conjunction with an initiative to address contract bundling (i.e., the consolidation of two or more requirements previously provided or performed under separate smaller contracts into a single contract that is likely to be unsuitable for award to a small business). OMB invites interested parties from both the public and private sector, and especially from small businesses, to provide comments on: The positive and negative effects of agency competition practices from the 1990s to the present, and the impact of contract bundling. Interested parties may offer oral and/or written comments at a public meeting to be held on June 14, 2002. Parties may also provide written comments directly to OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) by the date indicated below. | 2002-05-06 | 2002 | 5 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/05/06/02-11139/competition-in-contracting-contract-bundling | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-05-06/pdf/02-11139.pdf | Management and Budget Office | 280 | The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing federal agencies' use of competition in their contracting activities. Although "full and open" competition remains the general rule when agencies acquire goods and services, a variety of... |