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Administration opposes new audit requirements for GSA schedule contracts.(General Services Administration)(Brief Article)
Set-Aside Alert, April, 2005
GSA is considering whether to conduct post-award audits of GSA Schedule contractors to ensure that they are giving the government most-favored-customer prices on commercial items.
But the administrator of OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy said he opposes the audits.
GSA issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking April 12 asking for comment on the issue. The Government Accountability Office and GSA's inspector general have criticized the agency for poor oversight of contractor pricing.
GSA stopped conducting post-award audits in 1997. It says such audits were not consistent with practices in the commercial marketplace.
Post-award audits "are anathema to me," OFPP Administrator David Safavian said in a presentation at the...
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