Can insourcing work? Congress presses DoD to reverse outsourcing
Source: By ELISE CASTELLI, Federal Times, October 09, 2007
Congress is pressing the Defense Department to transfer possibly billions of dollars worth of contracted work in house.
The Senate last week passed a Defense authorization bill that would direct the Pentagon to transfer its contracted professional services work to its own employees or else renegotiate those contracts to promote better performance and less cost. If Defense can't do that, it must cancel the work, according to the bill.
The bill also would require the department to let employees compete for new and existing work that would typically go directly to contractors.