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contract, and the organizational 

component of the agency whose 

requirements are being met through 

contractor performance of the service; 

(C) The total dollar amount obligated 

for services under the contract and the 

funding source for the contract; 

(D) The total dollar amount invoiced 

for services under the contract; 

(E) The contract type and date of 

award; 

(F) The name of the contractor and 

place of performance; 

(G) The number and work location of 

contractor and subcontractor employees, 

expressed as full-time equivalents for 

direct labor, compensated under the 

contract; 

(H) Whether the contract is a personal 

services contract; and 

(I) Whether the contract was awarded 

on a noncompetitive basis, regardless of 

date of award. 

Section 743(a)(3)(A) through (I) of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act. 

Section 743(c) of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act requires agencies to 

‘‘publish in the Federal Register a notice 

that the inventory is available to the 

public.’’ 

Consequently, through this notice, we 

are announcing that the CPSC’s service 

contract inventory for FY 2010 is 

available to the public. The inventory 

provides information on service contract 

actions over $25,000 that we made in 

FY 2010. The information is organized 

by function to show how contracted 

resources are distributed throughout the 

CPSC. We developed the inventory in 

accordance with guidance issued on 

November 5, 2010 by the OMB. (The 

OMB guidance is available at http:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ 

omb/procurement/memo/servicecontract-inventories-guidance11052010.pdf.) The CPSC’s Division of 

Procurement Services has posted its 

inventory, and a summary of the 

inventory can be found at our homepage 

at the following link: http:// 

www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/reports/ 

2010inventories.pdf. 

Dated: February 14, 2011. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Efficiency Initiative Effort To Reduce 

Non-Value-Added Costs Imposed on 

Industry by Department of Defense 

Acquisition Practices 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

understands that some of its mandates, 

reporting requirements, and other 

acquisition practices encourage industry 

to adopt processes and make 

investments that increase costs, 

especially overhead costs, but do not 

contribute to value added in systems 

and services delivered to the 

Department. To implement the 

memorandum from Under Secretary of 

Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and 

Logistics) Dr. Ashton Carter, dated 

September 14, 2010, Memorandum to 

Acquisition Professionals, DoD is 

requesting information from the 

industrial base to identify the sources of 

these costs, backed by specific, credible, 

convincing data. DoD’s goal is to 

develop a fact-based program to reform 

cost-inflating practices. 

DATES: Submit written comments to the 

address shown below on or before 

March 31, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to: 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 

for Industrial Policy, 3330 Defense 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301; or email to efficiency.ip@osd.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Eugene Gholz, telephone 571–256–2974, 

or e-mail Eugene.Gholz@osd.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the 

summer of 2010, industry voluntarily 

furnished nearly 500 suggestions to the 

Department of Defense as part of the 

first stage of Undersecretary Carter’s 

Better Buying Power Initiative. Many of 

these suggestions were incorporated 

into the September 14, 2010, 

memorandum; others involved changes 

that can only be made over the longer 

term or require additional follow-up 

data before they are ready for possible 

action. DoD hopes that the current 

request for comments will yield the 

additional data that it needs along with 

information about some additional areas 

of non-value-added cost. 

Submissions should specifically 

identify policies and practices that 

increase industry’s non-value-added 

costs. They should draw on a reasonable 

definition of ‘‘non-value-added,’’ 

understanding that statutes and defense 

policies reflect persistent American 

values, including but not limited to, a 

clear focus on warfighting performance. 

It is not reasonable to count all costs 

associated with core laws governing 

defense acquisition as non-value added, 

but data on the costs of technical and 

administrative decisions within the 

statutory framework and on particular 

aspects of the laws would help the 

Efficiency Initiative move forward. As 

an example, earlier industry comments 

on the potential effects of adjusting 

thresholds in the Truth in Negotiations 

Act (TINA) for inflation seem to be at an 

appropriate level of analysis. 

The supporting data should give a 

clear indication of the magnitude of the 

cost, so that DoD can evaluate and 

prioritize the information. Submissions 

should also explain how the data were 

collected and the relevant costs were 

counted or estimated. DoD is looking for 

the sort of data used in the 1994 Defense 

Science Board study, The DoD 

Regulatory Cost Premium: A 

Quantitative Assessment. DoD is 

particularly interested in data that 

would allow it to follow up on earlier 

industry submissions about the effects 

of particular TINA provisions, particular 

audit practices, and particular barriers 

to right-sizing industry capacity for 

current and projected future levels of 

demand. 

DoD will use these submissions as 

part of its internal deliberations on the 

Better Buying Power Initiative. We 

expect to seek further industry comment 

at a public meeting where we hope that 

industry experts in contract 

management and finance will offer 

comments on the topic areas raised 

through this request for comments, 

ensuring that the results of this 

submission process are not idiosyncratic 

or overly influenced by particular 

companies’ cost structures. Any 

information from this request shared at 

that future meeting will be entirely 

sanitized. 

Submissions are likely to rely on 

business confidential data. Any 

business confidential data should be 

clearly labeled. The information will 

only be used by individuals in the 

Department of Defense who need it for 

purposes of policy development as part 

of Undersecretary Carter’s Efficiency 

Initiative. Trade secrets and commercial 

or financial information considered by 

the submitter to be privileged or 

confidential, and marked accordingly by 

the submitter, will be treated as exempt 

from public disclosure as provided for 

by 5 U.S.C. 522(b)(4) (Freedom of 

Information Act rules). 

Ynette R. Shelkin, 

Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

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