PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

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• Publication Date: March 22, 1982
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Federal Register Presidential Documents
Vol. 47, No. 55
Monday, March 22, 1982
Title 3- Executive Order 12952 of March 17, 1982
The President
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the
United States of America, and in order to ensure effective and efficient
spending of public funds through fundamental reforms in Government procure-
ment, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. To make procurement more effective in support of mission accom-
plishment, th of
(a) Establish programs to reduce administrative costs and other burdens
which the procurement function imposes on the Federal Government and the
private sector. Each program shall take into account the need to eliminate
unnecessary agency procurement regulations, paperwork, reporting require-
ments, solicitation provisions, contract clauses, certifications, and other ad-
ministrative procedures. Private sector views on needed changes should be
solicited as appropriate;
(b) Strengthen the review of programs to balance individual program needs
against mission priorities and available resources;
(c) Ensure timely satisfaction of mission needs at reasonable prices by
establishing criteria to improve the effectiveness of procurement systems;
(d) Establish criteria for enhancing effective competition and limiting noncom-
petitive actions. These criteria shall seek to improve competition by such
actions as eliminating unnecessary Government specifications and simplifying
those that must be retained, expanding the purchase of available commercial
goods and services, and, where practical, using functionally-oriented specifi-
cations or otherwise describing Government needs so as to permit greater.
latitude for private sector response;
(e) Establish programs to simplify small purchases and minimize paperwork
burdens imposed on the private sector, particularly small businesses;
(f) Establish administrative procedures to ensure that contractors, especially
small businesses, receive timely payment;
(g) Establish clear lines of contracting authority and accountability;
(h) Establish career management programs, covering the full range of person-
nel management functions, that will result in a highly qualified, well managed
professional procurement work force; and
(i) Designate a Procurement Executive with agency-wide responsibility to
oversee development of procurement systems, evaluate system performance in
accordance with approved criteria, enhance career management of the pro-
curement work force, and certify to the agency head that procurement systems
meet approved criteria.
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Sec. 3. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management, in consultation
with the heads of executive agencies, shall ensure that personnel policies and
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classification standards meet the needs of executive agencies for a pro-
fessional procurement work force.
Sec. 4. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget. through the
Office of Federal Procurement Policy as appropriate, shall work jointly with
the heads of executive agencies to provide broad policy guidance and overall
leadership necessary to achieve procurement reform, encompassing:
(a) Identifying desirable Government-wide procurement system criteria, such
as minimum requirements for training and appointing contracting officers;
(b) Facilitating the resolution of conflicting views among those agencies
having regulatory authority with respect- to Government-wide procurement
regulations:
(c) Assisting executive agencies in streamlining guidance for procurement
processes;
(d) Assisting in the development of criteria for procurement career manage-
ment programs;
(e) Facilitating interagency coordination of 'common procurement reform
efforts;
(f) Identifying major inconsistencies in law and policies relating to procure-
ment which impose unnecessary burdens on the private sector and Federal
procurement officials; and, following coordination with executive agencies,
submitting necessary legislative initiatives for the resolution of such inconsis-
tencies; and
(g) Reviewing agency implementation of the provisions of this Executive Order
and keeping me informed of progress and accomplishments.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
March 17, 1982.
(PR Doc. 52.7138
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