Agencies struggle to meet goals on opening work to contractors
Source: By Elizabeth Newell, GovExec.com, July 30, 2007
Agencies are struggling to make progress on President Bush's initiative to open federal jobs to bids from contractors, according to a new quarterly score card released by the Office of Management and Budget Monday.
The assessment for the third quarter of fiscal 2007, which ended June 30, showed five agencies with with one-level drops in their competitive sourcing grades and a sixth with a two-level downgrade. The score card gives agencies traffic-light-style ratings of red for "unsatisfactory," yellow for "mixed results" and green for "success."