A-76 is a tough sell for OMB

Competitive sourcing has become an even tougher sell on Capitol Hill now that lawmakers attribute the unsanitary conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Building 18 to an exodus of federal workers after a private company took over maintenance work.

Paul Denett, administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy, must persuade lawmakers that the policy is a good one, despite their outrage about conditions at Walter Reed’s outpatient facilities.

Competitive sourcing pits federal employees against the private employees in job competitions regulated by OMB policy, known as Circular A-76. About 6,680 federal employees who do work similar to that performed in the private sector had their jobs put up for public/private competitions in fiscal 2006.

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