Should the Interior Departments Minerals Management Service be brokering fee-based procurement deals for non-Interior bureaus?
FRANCHISE FUNDS Matthew Weinstock’s article, “Building Entrepreneurs,” (June) cites the purported benefits of this growth in entrepreneurialism over the past eight years. Among them are leaner support staffs, greater cost transparency and price sensitivity, and innovation through competition. Many agencies have been authorized to provide interagency reimbursable services for 60 years, since the 1932 Economy Act, but the acceleration triggered by the Clinton administration’s reinventing government drive has been vertiginous. Most notable was the passage of the 1994 Government Management Reform Act (GMRA), which launched franchise fund pilots at six departments. These funds soon will be up for reauthorization and perhaps expansion across government. Neither the General Accounting Office nor OMB has seriously studied the pilots, and no congressional hearings have been scheduled to examine the reauthorization question. These franchise funds have grown rapidly, to say the least. Treasury al
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