Union Report: How to reduce contract spending

[Guest Vern Edwards]

The American Federation of Government Employees has published a report entitled, "Reducing Spending on Service Contracts in Order to Comply with Sequestration," available here: http://afgeunionblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/sequestration_4-pager_single_feb6-2.pdf.

The Professional Services Council has produced two responses:

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/204/3223087/Could-cutting-service-contracts-avert-sequestration-furloughs

http://www.pscouncil.org/News2/NewsReleases/2013/PSC__Union_Backed_Contractor_Cuts_Misses_Critical_Consideration.aspx

[airborne373]

Tried the first link to the report, said file not found

this might work

http://afgeunionblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/sequestration_4-pager_single_feb6-2.pdf

[Boof]

I say let sequestration happen as long as it is truely an 8.x% cut on everybody and every program. We have to get the budget under control somehow and Congress can't seem to find a way other than across the board. I will enjoy my month of furlough this summer knowing I did my part for the debt reduction while visiting my grandkids. However, I don't want to lose my money if everyone isn't feeling the pain an equal amount. I suspect Congress will come up with some last minute plan that penalizes us FEDS more and bails out the big money special interests. Everyone has been living above their means for a long time even if they didn't realize it and unfortunately balancing the budget is going to hurt a lot more than this before it is complete.

[Chris M]

We all know we have the ability, contractually, to assist the powers that be in reducing contract spending. I think it's more a matter of getting the request from the requiring activity to actually issue the modifications necessary to reduce the spending.

Is it just me but when I hear the talking heads discuss 'reducing government spending' I automatically think of how much we spend on contracts? (probably because my profession is doing just that, spending the Government's money) But no one in Congress wants to reduce the spending in their jusidiction, "we need to reduce spending" (yelling voice)..... "in someone else's jusidiction" (under their breath voice)