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Appendix I: Scope and Methodology
Airports Council International, and a major liability insurance provider-
to obtain information on the type of insurance available to private
screening contractors.
To assess the status of TSA's efforts to achieve cost-savings in screener
operations through the SPP, specifically with respect to the choice of
contract used, and contract terms, we reviewed TSA's contracts for
screening services for the four contractors currently providing passenger
and checked baggage screening services. We did not review the contracts
that TSA awarded in early 2006 to two contractors to provide private
screening services in the SPP. Additionally, we reviewed TSA's acquisition
policies and procedures, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and the
Federal Aviation Administration's acquisition management system, to
identify standards and guidance for contracting practices of TSA and the
federal government. Further, we reviewed TSA's transition plan and other
SPP guidance to identify TSA's current and planned approaches for
identifying screening program costs. We also reviewed TSA's activity-
based costing study that assessed the cost of passenger and checked
baggage screening operations at 15 airports, including the 5 that
participated in the 2-year pilot program using private screeners. We
determined that the results of the activity-based costing study were
sufficiently reliable for the purpose of our review. Finally, to gather
perspectives on opportunities for cost-savings under the SPP, we
interviewed TSA SPP and contracting officials, the four contractors
currently providing screening services, the seven airport directors who
applied to the SPP and the FSDs at these airports, and representatives of
the American Association of Airport Executives and the Airports Council
International. We did not review TSA's actual determination of the amount
of contractor award fee. Nor did we review the conduct of TSA's
performance evaluation boards or fee determining official in evaluating
contractor performance against award fee criteria (including cost-savings)
and determining the amount of the contractors' award fee. However, we
did verify that TSA had evaluated contractor performance (including cost-
savings) in making award fee determinations.
To assess TSA's progress in developing and implementing performance
goals, measures, and targets to assess the performance of the private
screening contractors who will be participating in the SPP, we reviewed
the terms of TSA's award fee process specified in the current contracts
and TSA's draft quality assurance surveillance and award fee plan. We also
reviewed TSA's June 2004 guidance on the SPP, other guidance-related
material TSA developed for private screening contractors and airports
regarding the SPP, TSA's contracts for the private screening contractors
currently providing screening services, TSA testimony at congressionalGAO-06-166 Aviation Security
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