The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76, Performance of Commercial Activities, has been around for over 40 years. A-76 was commonly used to refer to the process of outsourcing non-inherently governmental jobs in the 1990s. The A-76 circular was substantially revised to simplify and standardize implementation guidance and was released in its current form on May 29, 2003. The 0MB now uses A-76 to help implement the competitive ...
The time has passed when management of service contracts could be haphazardly assigned to inexperienced and poorly trained contract administrators. Today, contracts are more pervasive and critical to mission performance throughout the Department of Defense (DoD), and make up the largest segment of DoD procurements. Even battlefield contracts, like the Army Logistics Civil Augmentation and the Air Force Contract Augmentation Programs provide vital services and act as force multipliers for ...