Defense transportation: the Army's Hunter pilot project to outsource relocation services: report to congressional committees

Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013) : The Office, [1998]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)41030947 Subject: Logistics -- Contracting out -- United States. Excerpt: ... B-278548 formulating a sound evaluation plan. However, the evaluation method has not been finalized or made a formal part of the evaluation plan, and questions remain about the definition of terms and small business group measurements. We recognize that further issues could be identified as the evaluation method is finalized. In addition, the Hunter pilot is only one initiative among several that will be tested to determine how can improve the delivery of relocation DOD services to military personnel. Should decide to expand the Hunter DOD pilot to include significantly more military customers and services, this could provide additional information for assessing the concept and for USTRANSCOM evaluating results and savings achieved. However,, which has primary responsibility for analyzing overall results and savings achieved, will ultimately need to assess the relative strengths and / or limitations of DOD each pilot project to determine how can best improve the personal property program. We recommend that the Secretary of Defense direct the Secretary of the Recommendation Army to finalize its method for evaluating the pilot results to include the new evaluation information provided in response to our draft report. In doing so, the Secretary of Defense should direct the Secretary of the Army to strengthen the evaluation plan by better defining terms and more clearly defining the small business groups on which measurements will be taken to establish small business participation in the pilot. DOD stated that it concurred, with comment, with the report and Agency Comments recommendation. Our draft report contained a recommendation that the and Our Evaluation Secretary of Defense direct the Secretary of the Army to determine what results the Army will require to judge i...