How Sunlight Can ImproveFederal Contracting
Nine Recommendations to Make GovernmentContracting More Eective and Ecient or Taxpayers
Pratap Chatterjee March 2012
CAP’s Doing What Works project promotes government reorm to eciently allocate scarce resources andachieve greater results or the American people. This project specifcally has three key objectives:
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Eliminating or redesigning misguided spending programs and tax expenditures, ocused on priority areassuch as health care, energy, and education
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Boosting government productivity by streamlining management and strengthening operations in the areaso human resources, inormation technology, and procurement
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Building a oundation or smarter decision-making by enhancing transparency and perormancemeasurement and evaluationThis paper is one in a series o reports examining government accountability and eciency.