Agencies are struggling to make progress on President Bush's initiative to open federal jobs to bids from contractors, according to a new quarterly score card released by the Office of Management and Budget Monday.
The assessment for the third quarter of fiscal 2007, which ended June 30, showed five agencies with with one-level drops in their competitive sourcing grades and a sixth with a two-level downgrade. The score card gives agencies traffic-light-style ratings of red for "unsatisfactory," yellow for "mixed results" and green for "success."
The Agriculture, Labor, State and Transportation departments went down to yellow marks in competitive sourcing, while the Housing and Urban Development department moved down one notch and the Energy Department, two, to red. Only one agency -- the Homeland Security Department -- improved in that area, from red to yellow. Nine of the 26 agencies graded remained at green.
Competitive sourcing, which asks agencies to create inventories of work that could be performed by the private sector and open some of those jobs to bids, had by far the most movement of the five main President's Management Agenda initiatives graded on the score card.
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