According to the White House’s 2006 budget proposal,
“the administration will continue to work with the
Congress to remove legislative restrictions on
E-Government,” as well as those “on competitive sourcing
so that all federal agencies have full use of this
important management tool.”
It said the recently completed consolidation of the federal
payroll system could save more than $1 billion over 10
years and wants to carry out further “consolidation
opportunities in other areas, such as financial management,
grants management, and human resources management.”
The budget proposal said agencies would continue to
compete with each other and contractors to become shared
service providers and provide specific services across
the government, “to reduce the need for individual
agencies to invest in these administrative systems
individually.”