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GAO Performance and Accountability Highlights 2006
unparalleled, we must plan and prepare
for the possibility of significant and
recurring constraints on the resources
made available to the agency. In addi-
tion, because almost 80 percent of our
budget is composed of people-related
costs, any serious budget situation will
likely have an impact on our human
capital policies and practices. This, in
turn, would have an impact on our
ability to serve the Congress and meet
our performance targets. While, as noted
above, the nature and extent of any such
budget constraints cannot be determined
at the present time, our executive team is
engaged in a range of related planning
activities. It is both appropriate and
prudent for us to engage in such plan-
ning. At the same time, we are hopeful
that the Congress will recognize that
performance-based budgeting concepts
would support providing additional
resources to entities with prudent budget
requests and proven performance results.
If the Congress employs such an ap-
proach, we should be in a good position
to continue to provide a high rate of
return on the resources invested in the
agency.
A growing area for us involves our work
on bid protests. As required by law, our
General Counsel prepares Comptroller
General procurement law decisions that
resolve protests filed by disappointed
bidders. These bidders challenge the way
individual federal procurements are
being conducted or how the contracts
were awarded. In recent years, we have
experienced an increase in the number of
bid protests that have been filed, and infiscal year 2005 the Congress enacted
legislation that expanded our authority
to allow certain representatives of
affected government employees to
protest when the private sector wins a
private-public competition. We will
continue to monitor our workload in
this area to ensure that we meet our
statutory responsibilities with minimal
negative impact on our other work.
Another external factor is the extent to
which we can obtain access to certain
types of information. With concerns
about operational security being unusu-
ally high at home and abroad, we may
have more difficulty obtaining informa-
tion and reporting on sensitive issues.
Historically, our auditing and informa-
tion gathering have been limited when-
ever the intelligence community is
involved. In addition, we have not had
the authority to access or inspect records
or other materials held by other coun-
tries or, generally, by the multinational
institutions that the United States works
with to protect its interests. Conse-
quently, our ability to fully assess the
progress being made in addressing
several national and homeland security
issues may be hampered. Given the
heightened security environment, we
also anticipate that more of our reports
may be subject to classification reviews
than in the past, which means that the
public dissemination of these products
may be limited. We plan to work with
the Congress to identify both legislative
and nonlegislative opportunities for
strengthening our access authority as
necessary and appropriate.Mitigating External Factors
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