Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role of Government as the Provider

One of President Bush’s five management initiatives is competitive sourcing. The administration has established a goal that the federal government should competitively source 50% of all non-inherently governmental positions by 2005. To achieve this goal will require a major shift in the way government does its business. This project defines competitive sourcing and outsourcing, shows which situations are appropriate to use one or the other, and lists steps for successful implementation. defense, forest service, opm, office of personnel management, va, veterans administration, air force, army, marines, navy, in, indiana, va, virginia, british telecom, brown & root, dyncorp, usec Market-Based Government