Closer Look at Changes

The Circular A-76 revisions could have a significant impact on the roughly 850,000 federal employees whose jobs are deemed commercial in nature and subject to contracting-out, at least in theory. The administration hopes the revisions will speed up the process of putting those jobs up for competition; officials admit that few agencies will meet the administration’s goal of putting 15 percent of their jobs up for competition by the end of this fiscal year. Long-term, the White House wants agencies to put half of their commercial type jobs up for competition, although it has not set a timeframe. For a closer look at the changes in store under the revised A-76 policy, go to https://www.fedweek.com/HotFreeNews/default.asp in the hot free info section of our website.