U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-11-784, Interagency Contracting: Improvements Needed in Setting Fee Rates for Selected Programs. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2011. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11784.pdf (accessed 4 October 2011).

This report assesses the current fee rates and trends in the fee rates, sales, costs, and revenues; the extent to which programs subsidize, or are subsidized by, other programs; the extent to which agencies identify, track, and forecast costs and revenues, manage reserves, and obtain approval for fee-rate changes; and the extent to which agencies use contractor personnel to supplement program staffing.