Congress 107 - HR 721 - Truthfulness, Responsibility, and Accountability in Contracting Act

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Administrative procedure Armed Forces and National Security Blind Collective bargaining agreements Collective bargaining in government Commerce Competition Competitive bidding Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Cost accounting Cost control Disabled Economics and Public Finance Electronic government information Employee benefit plans Employee-management relations in government Employment of the disabled Federal employees Finance and Financial Sector Government contractors Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Government service contracts Health Internet Labor and Employment Law Office of Management and Budget Performance measurement Privatization Quality control Science, Technology, Communications Subcontractors Wage surveys

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Truthfulness, Responsibility, and Accountability in Contracting Act - Prohibits any Federal agency from making a decision to privatize, outsource, contract out, or contract for the performance of a function currently performed by the agency or to conduct a study to convert a function from Federal to contractor performance. Allows an agency to contract out a function not then performed by Federal employees if such function would be performed under contract by the blind or handicapped. Authorizes any agency to apply to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for a waiver of such prohibition on specified grounds.

Requires each agency to establish a centralized system for reporting on its contracting efforts during the preceding and current fiscal years.

Requires any agency decision to privatize, outsource, or contract out for the performance of a function, after expiration of the prohibition enacted by this Act, to be based on the results of a public-private competition process meeting specified requirements.

Requires an agency either to conduct a new public-private competition or to convert a function to performance by Federal employees if a report indicates that: (1) contracting out costs exceed costs of performance by Federal employees; or (2) contracting out fails to meet quality control standards.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to survey and report to specified congressional committees on the wages and quantifiable benefits provided by contractors to non-Federal personnel working under contract.

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Mar 7, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy.
Feb 14, 2001

Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
Feb 14, 2001

Introduced in House

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