Federal contractors : better performance information needed to support agency contract award decisions : report to congressional requesters.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letting of contracts--United States--Evaluation.

Letting of contracts.

Performance standards--United States.

Performance standards.

Public contracts.

Evaluation.

United States.

Public contracts--United States--Evaluation.

Interagency coordination--United States.

Interagency coordination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 39 pages, digital, PDF file)

Other Title:

Better performance information needed to support agency contract award decisions

Contractor past performance information

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In fiscal year 2007, federal agencies worked with over 160,000 contractors, obligating over $456 billion, to help accomplish federal missions. This reliance on contractors makes it critical that agencies have the information necessary to properly evaluate a contractor's prior history of performance and better inform agencies' contract award decisions. While actions have been taken to improve the sharing of past performance information and its use -- including the development of the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) -- concerns remain about this information. This report assesses agencies' use of past performance information in awarding contracts; identifies challenges that hinder systematic sharing of past performance information; and describes efforts to improve contractor performance information. In conducting this work, GAO analyzed 62 contract solicitations from fiscal years 2007 and 2008 and met with 121 contracting officials. While the solicitations represent a range of contracts and contractors, GAO's findings cannot be generalized to all federal contracts. GAO is making recommendations to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and selected agencies aimed at facilitating sharing and use of past performance information.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Bethesda, Md.] : ProQuest, 2004. digital, PDF file. ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Mode of access: World Wide Web via ProQuest website.

Other Format:

Print version: United States. Government Accountability Office. Federal contractors

Microfiche version: United States. Government Accountability Office. Federal contractors. CIS 2009 J942-375

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.