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Competitive Sourcing Initiative
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As one of the five government-wide reforms under the President’s Management Agenda, the competitive sourcing initiative calls on agencies to strive to create a market-based government unafraid of competition, innovation and choice. OMB has revamped the primary tool for achieving this competition, OMB Circular A-76.

• OMB Circular A-76 (May 29, 2003, including technical correction made by OMB Memorandum M-03-20) (August 15, 2003) (1.35mb)

• Federal Register Notice on OMB Memorandum M-03-02 (Technical Correction to OMB Circular A-76) (August 15, 2003) HTML or PDF (63k)

• Benefits of the Revised OMB Circular A-76 (May 29, 2003) (187k)

• OMB Circular A-76 (Revised May 29, 2003) (1.35mb)

• Federal Register Notice on the Revision to OMB Circular A-76 (May 29, 2003) HTML or PDF (124k)

• Docket of Comments to Proposed Revised OMB Circular A-76

• Proposed Revision to OMB Circular A-76 (November 14, 2002) (926k)

• Federal Register Notice on the Proposed Revision to OMB Circular A-76 (November 19, 2002) HTML or PDF (107k)
  
  
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  • Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) proposed regulation on contract bundling (128k)
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