Army Procurement

Contracting for Management and Operation of Government-Owned Ammunition Plants Gao ID: NSIAD-88-72 March 8, 1988

In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army's process of selecting the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant's contract for competition to determine whether the selection process complied with the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984.

GAO found that: (1) the Army's evaluation criteria and ratings were flawed and inconsistent; (2) there was no indication that the process was biased toward selection of the Louisiana plant; (3) the selection process did not comply with the act, which required the Army to open all of its plant operating contracts to competition or justify its failure to do so; (4) by reviewing all plant contracts for competitive potential, the Army appeared to be giving up its justification of noncompetitive procurement on the grounds that competition would adversely impact defense production; and (5) while the Army contended that it lacked resources to open all of the contracts to competition, it acknowledged that it had not requested those resources.

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