The House Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill contains language to keep a public-private competition requirement for federal jobs in fiscal 2007.
As in the fiscal 2006 bill, the requirement states that functions performed by over 10 federal employees cannot be handed to contractors without weighing the agency’s most competitive bid against the contractor’s, which would at least need to show a saving of at least 10 percent or $10 million to win the work.
The American Federation of Government Employees praised the action, noting that even though the Transportation Security Administration and Department’s of Defense are exempted from the requirement, the Defense appropriations bill has had strong public-private competition requirements since fiscal 2004.