David Thomas: “This is a Thomas-Voinovich amendment. We worked on this together. I will cover a little bit about what it does. This is…”

“This is a Thomas-Voinovich amendment. We worked on this together. I will cover a little bit about what it does. This is a reporting requirement addressing a number of the concerns various Senators have had about competitive sourcing. The amendment does the following: It requires the Secretary of Interior to annually report on its competitive sourcing efforts, including the list of the total number of competitions completed, the list of the total number of competitions announced, the activities covered, the total number of full-time equivalent Federal employees studied under the completed competition, the total number of full-time equivalent Federal employees being studied but not completed. It also asks for the incremental costs directly attributable to conducting the competitions, including the costs to paying outside consultants and estimated total anticipated savings or description of the improvements and service or performance derived from the competitions. Also, actual savings and improvements in our services or performance derived from the competition, the total projected number of full-time equivalent Federal employees covered by competitions scheduled to be announced for the next fiscal year. It requires a general description of how the competitive sourcing decisionmaking process of the Department of Interior is aligned with the strategic workforce plan of the Department.”