POGO Survey on Service Contracts

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has extended the deadline for completion of its online survey of federal service contracts to January 15, 2009. Here's their description of the survey:

POGO is investigating the federal government's outsourcing of services to the private sector, which will be referred to in this survey as federal service contracts (or FSCs for short). POGO is trying to determine whether these contracts conform to regulatory standards and are achieving the stated purpose(s) of using private sector contractors instead of government employees to perform services (i.e. to acquire hard-to-find skills, to save money, to augment federal workforce capacity on an emergency basis, to reduce the size of the government).

To aid in this investigation, this survey is being distributed to federal government and contractor employees. POGO will analyze the responses to this survey in conjunction with other data obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and publish its findings and recommendations in a written report that will be accessible online.