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Attorney general candidate Dee Smith at a debate Tuesday blasted payday lenders as "predatory" and took a swipe at lobbyists who helped lawmakers defeat legislation that would've made it a bit easier for borrowers to defend against collection lawsuits.
"We need to do more to protect citizens who are disadvantaged and are struggling to make ends meet," Smith, a Democrat and Weber County Attorney, said. "And I think payday loans take advantage of those citizens."
John Swallow, a Republican, chief deputy attorney general and former lobbyist for the payday lending industry, disagreed. He said the attorney general should only investigate if laws are being broken — otherwise they should be "left alone."
"I believe that individuals have the right to secure credit where it makes sense for them," Swallow said. "People ought to have that privilege to decide whether they want to borrow money on a credit card, they want to borrow money on a car, on a house or borrow money in an unsecured fashion from a regulated payday lender."
The clash — before a crowd of about 120 people at the event sponsored by the Salt Lake Rotary Club — was just the second debate between the candidates.
Smith's dig at payday lending lobbyists referred to a bill sponsored this year by Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, that would've prevented payday lenders from filing lawsuits against borrowers in distant counties. The bill, SB110, was killed in a committee headed by Sen. John Valentine, R-Provo, and a backer of Swallow.
"These are people who don't often have transportation and they want to make it more difficult for them to have access to our court system," Smith said. "The legislation had good support until the lobbyists came by and killed it. We need to do more to protect citizens who are disadvantaged."
Swallow defended the industry, saying such lenders can only earn interest on the first 10 weeks of the loan and that they are regulated by the Utah Department of Financial Institutions.
"If elected, what I would do is make sure that anybody in business is following the rules and regulations put in place by the policymakers — which is the Legislature," Swallow, a former lawmaker, said.
Swallow was also put on the defensive by questions about campaign fundraising — a prickly area where the he has outraised Smith by an almost 25-to-1 ratio by scooping up $1.2 million.
It's an area Smith has been especially critical of and said collecting so much money creates conflicts of interest.
"This is, in general, a troubling area to me," Smith said. "The Attorney General's Office to me has to be independent."
But Swallow noted Smith didn't have a high-profile primary fight to get to the general election.
"Unlike my opponent, I had to go through a convention cycle, which cost me about $300,000 to get through that," Swallow said. "And then a primary cycle to get the nomination, which cost me about $600,000."
Swallow also said "you have to have integrity to be in office" and that "you're not selling fire insurance when you accept a contribution from someone."
The two also differed on Utah's role in filing lawsuits against the federal government.
Smith said a plan to sue the federal government over control of millions of acres is just a message bill and that even if the state could take over the two-thirds of Utah's land mass that is owned by the federal government, the state would have to absorb the $300 million cost of maintaining that property. Add in costs to fight wildfires and Smith said it would force the state to auction off the areas.
"There is no way to recoup that amount of money as a state without selling those lands and exploiting them to the point where we won't be able to enjoy them," he said. "I don't want to live in a state that's locked up with 'No trespassing' signs everywhere I go."
The attempt to get the land back — and eventually go to court — was passed by the Legislature this year in HB148 and was signed by Gov. Gary Herbert. But legislative attorneys said the law is likely unconstitutional.
Swallow said that he wouldn't file a lawsuit if it had "zero chance of moving the needle on an important policy issue" but said the Attorney General's Office is still reviewing its options. But getting the land has been a cornerstone issue for Swallow and he said it would allow the state to tap into natural resources, create jobs and fund education.
"If we create more jobs and create more incomes, we'll create more revenues for education," Swallow said.
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At ec, we found two nearly identical E46 M3s we wanted to improve. Initially, the owners doubted getting any significant gains on such a high-strung engine, but we found some smile-inducing tricks.
Why two cars, you ask? We also wanted to answer for ourselves this question: Are two seemingly identical M3s really the same? See our sidebar for that answer.
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Both wheels weigh an identical 25.5 pounds, the same as the factory 19-inch forged wheels they replace. While we stayed with the same as stock sized rear wheels at 9.5x19, we upped the fronts by a half-inch over stock to 8.5x19. For around $250-280 per wheel, VMR provides style and quality at a price that will save you thousands over other brands.
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The German tire giant is no stranger to high-end performance. In fact, when tested independently by Tire Rack against other big-name brands—on a BMW 3 Series, no less— the Conti EC DW topped the list, being named the best in combined wet and dry performance, while also ranking the most comfortable and fuel efficient of the bunch.
Out of curiosity, we tried just two simple rips to 60 mph in a 15 minute window, comparing one of the M3's original 255/35-19 tire setups against the Contis, and instantly found a tenth of a second gain at speeds starting as low as 10 mph. Additionally, while we didn't get a chance to test it numerically, the overall braking and handling performance has significantly improved thanks to the larger sizes. Visually, the wider stance is thick icing on the cake.
At the end of the day, we ended up with two cars that are faster, handle better, brake better, have improved fuel efficiency and even look more menacing. Despite our setbacks with Car 1, this was a good day, and the owners are smiling.
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How is life in Title Fight lately?
It's really exciting, like the record came out in America two days ago. Those songs have been written and recorded for a while, so it's very exciting to have that out in the world, because it kind of refreshes the whole album to me. Not that I got sick or bored of it, but now that the public is hearing it, it's exciting to see what everyone thinks and it's given it new life, I think.
Shed was only released last year, how come you produced another record so quickly?
I don't know, I think we just wanted to keep things moving and we did a lot of touring off of Shed, and we were writing new music and had a flat where we could record and make it all happen. We just did it because we like writing and we like recording. Just because Shed came out not that long ago, it doesn't mean there has to be time limit or anything. We were just ready and excited to do it. It just happened to work out. It was for the best, because if we were on this tour, still touring on Shed and playing those songs, it would have been fun, but we're ready to play new songs. We just want to keep things moving and keep things progressing. Maybe after this record it'll take a while to record another one or maybe we'll feel inspired and have another one out a year from now, who knows? For us, I don't work anymore, Title Fight is what we do fulltime and writing music to keep it going is an exciting thing.
So, you just released Floral Green and I haven't seen one negative review, how do you feel about that?
From what I can gather, it's been overwhelmingly positive. It's weird, because I was expecting a lot of people to be turned off by the new record and I was accepting of that and kind of prepared for it. Especially, when we released the video for "Head In The Ceiling Fan," the first song off the record, we really stuck our necks out on the line, and people ended up really liking it a lot, which I was surprised about. I think it's that a lot of kids who've liked us over the years, are sort of growing up with us in a way with their musical tastes. I know for me, growing up I'd always love a certain kind of band when I was young and then as I grow older, I'm listening to new music and discovering new stuff. I think being that band that is growing up with our peers is part of the reason why everyone has such an open mind about us releasing new music that sounds different, because change is happening in everyone's lives. It's exciting and we really appreciate people sticking by us, like we've done a lot of weirder tours in the past and stuff that was out of our comfort zone, so it really means a lot to us.
You're obviously very '90s-influenced - whether it's your music, look, merchandise, videos, etc. What's with your 90s worship?
I never really thought it was '90s worship' until people started saying that, but I guess it kind of makes sense. To us, that's what I identify with when it comes to bands I think are cool, like a cool sound, merch, all that kind of stuff. Our frame of reference isn't what's happening right now, it's what I was drawn to when I was first getting into music. '90s just has a cool aura about it, it feels very special and very much it's own thing. Stuff with even like our videos, I think a lot of it is just a product of us. Like the last video for Secret Society, we filmed it on VHS, not just because we were familiar with that, but also because we really needed to get it done really quickly. We had four days to get it done, and we didn't have time to find a fancy camera or find a crazy director to do it, we just did it ourselves. I think it's cool if that encourages a kid to use something they found lying around their house, like an old video camera or old guitar, to prove you don't need to nicest gear or equipment to make art. You can make art with anything. The quality doesn't matter; it just depends on the effort and how you feel about it. To me, that's what I hope to get across with all these videos. Like if you want to be in a band, you don't have to save up a ton of money to buy the nicest amp or anything like that. Anything you want to do is at your fingertips.
There definitely seems to be a '90s resurgence, with bands taking on this more indie/emo rock sound, and even people's fashion sense, like hardcore kids wearing their XXLs, why do you think that is?
Yeah, I don't know. Like I said, we don't really look to our peers, we've always liked what we liked. I think a lot of it has to do with where we come from; we've had a really good example set for us by the scene and community we've come from. Things have been past down from old records to t-shirts and the way we discover bands are from the older guys that have been around in the 90s. We're just drawn to the past in that way, I guess, and that leads us to buying old t-shirts of bands we like who aren't around anymore. Ned will buy a Gorilla Biscuits shirt or something off some old guy who has it lying around his house and it's just big, because they didn't have as many sizes back then. Now it's common to have girls' sizes and youth large, which is really nice, but from what I can gather in the 90s, it was like L and XL when it came to hardcore bands and stuff like that. I think that's maybe a reason why people are looking the way they're looking, I don't know. We never really put too much thought into our fashion.
Like you just mentioned, you just released the video for "Secret Society" and it's pretty grim, where did that idea come from?
I hate being that guy who takes credit, but I guess it was my idea. We knew we wanted to do a video and we knew we wanted to do something different, and we've never had a narrative storyline in our videos, and doing videos has been something that's really started to interest me lately. I just think it's really cool to have another extension of the band that's an artistic outlet, which is totally different to making music. When we had the idea to make a new video, I was just watching older videos to see if anything struck me and a lot of the visual aesthetic I liked, but I couldn't think of a storyline. I think I watched a video and there was blood on it somewhere and I thought it'd be cool to do something really over-the-top, but almost in a funny way. Something that was a cute storyline, but also gruesome and crude, and I thought that would be a really interesting route to take. I told everyone my idea and I think they were pretty weirded out, but we started speaking about it and Ned's girlfriend helped direct and edit it, and it just kind of snowballed into what it is. I'm really happy with it, I think it's interesting and definitely caught people off-guard.
You said you've been on some weird tours - one that springs to mind is your recent tour with Rise Against and A Day To Remember, which was pretty unorthodox for you, did anyone give you shit?
No one gave us shit to our faces, but I think it reflected on a lot of kids not coming to the shows that would have normally come. I really don't blame them though, because tickets were crazy expensive and most of them were in arenas with barriers and it just wasn't the right atmosphere to see us in. I totally understand people not wanting to go through that, because I don't think I would want to either. I didn't feel any backlash for doing that. I think a lot of people that know us personally know that we just do things, because I don't know when I'm going to experience playing that again. That's putting the band aside and what kids are going to think, because at the end of the day, we're always thinking how we feel and it was just something we wanted to try out and we knew we'd never get a chance like that again. I'm glad we did it, because despite no one caring we were playing, we met some really awesome people and it was cool to see that sort of professional side of touring and have videos and pictures to show our kids when we're older. It was a really special thing and I was glad to do it with the rest of the guys in the band, because it was a learning experience for everybody. We'll always be able to play a basement no matter what, but we're not always going to be able to play an arena. If people talked shit on us, then I didn't hear, because I don't pay attention to anyone except my friends.
I remember interviewing you back in 2010 and there was a load of hype around you, and two-and-a-half years on, there still seems to be this massive buzz about you.
It feels good to know that people are talking about our band and care about us. We quit school in order to pursue the band as a career, not only to devote our lives to creating art, but also we dropped everything we were doing to see if we could do it as a career. I feel like we've constantly been doing well the past few years, and as a band, you can't really ask for anything more. If no one was talking about us now or no one was hear to see us, then it'd be a different story. If people are still talking about us and we're still a "hype" band or whatever, I don't care. I'm having the most fun of my life and making some stuff I'm really proud of. It's crazy. I feel like we got really lucky, because I think there are a lot more bands that deserve to be more recognized, and I feel like we're not any better than a lot of bands. We feel really lucky and fortunate to be in a position where we're able to do exactly what we want and people are still sticking with us. We've been able to tour and go around the world, on our own terms too. We haven't compromised on any of our music or art, and I think that's important. I don't know what it is, but hopefully, it keeps up.
Even though your sound in Title Fight has digressed, you still remain true to your hardcore roots, as you're in a straight edge youth crew band called Disengage - is there anything going on with Disengage at the minute?
That's more Ned's baby more than anything. He writes everything, I just kind of play live, because it's fun. It's just like a casual thing we do on the side when we have time from Title Fight. Those shows are where all our friends are at and it's cool to go back to that after doing a tour like this on a bigger scale. Doing Disengage kind of brings us back down to earth and we don't get to worry about the little inconveniences that Title Fight shows sometime bring up, because the more we tour, the more professional it gets, which is cool, but to not worry about what time we're loading in or sound checking, and just hang out with our friends and play, there's no agenda and it's just about playing music. Disengage isn't really up to anything right now, I'm sure we're going to play more shows and write more music, but we've been pretty focused on the Title Fight record, so we haven't had time.
I interviewed Uriah from Dead End Path earlier this year and he said the Wilkes-Barre scene was at a low point a couple of years ago, but then you got a venue and it really flourished. How do you feel about the Wilkes-Barre scene?
It's so cool to be apart of it, especially traveling around the world, like we'll go to Japan and kids will be wearing Dead End Path shirts and they don't even speak English, but I'll point to the shirt and they'll know Dead End Path is from Wilkes-Barre and know what it is because of our friends. That's crazy to me, because they're my friends and we're just a bunch of dumb kids who are in bands and try really hard to be creative, and people recognize that. It's really awesome. There's always new kids coming through and new bands starting out all the time, it's really healthy for being such a small area. Everybody just kind of looks out for each other and I think it's a really unique experience if you've never experienced something like that, but to us, it's just home and normal. The venue helped out a lot, it actually got shut down recently, but we're reopening one in October, hopefully. It gives us a common ground and we play there whenever we can - us, Dead End Path, United Youth, The Menzingers, Tigers Jaw, there's so many cool bands in the area, and it's important to have that sense of community.
What's next for Title Fight after this?
We're going home and having a record release show in October, which should be pretty fun. Then we're doing a headline tour in the States with Pianos Become The Teeth and a band from Canada called Single Mothers. Tigers Jaw is playing a couple of shows, Powertrip is playing a couple of shows, and Face Reality. We're really excited to do it, because we haven't headlined in America in a while, and the new record will have been out for a couple of months and we get to tour with the bands we got to pick, so it's really exciting. After that, it's the holidays, so we don't really have anything planned after that. I'm sure we're going to tour a lot on this record and try to get as many people as we can to listen to it.
Is there anything else you want to say?
Thanks for the interview and thanks for anyone who supports our band, especially in spite of weird tours or anything like that, that is kind of questionable as of late. I totally appreciate people still coming out and listening to the music. I just want to thank anybody that's stuck it out with us.


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Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, and Chancellor, It is a pleasure to have a moment to talk to you today about the work that we've been doing to plan for this discussion.
When I was a new president, I sought out more experienced and successful presidents to discover from them, what the most important part of their job was. The president of Miami Dade College was one of those presidents that I interviewed. When I asked him what the most important part of his job was, he said to sustain the democracy of the United States. I told him I didn't understand, so he explained.
My job, he said, is to educate the next generation of native Floridians, Cubans, or Haitians. If I do that really well, they will become vested in the democratic system of this country. And then they will nurture, they will defend, and they will sustain the democracy of the United States of America. I returned to the Rio Grande Valley convinced that I had discovered, through that conversation, the most important nature of my own job as well.
Today, the Chancellor has laid out a vision of how to transform one of the fastest-growing regions of the State of Texas into one of the most productive, vibrant and well-educated contributors to the well-being of the entire state. We share his vision.
There is nothing wrong with the human capital of the Rio Grande Valley that a little bit of opportunity can't solve.
My own father was born in Monterrey. His family fled Mexico during the revolution in search of a new life. It took his family just one generation to re-establish itself. In our family, we now have doctors and lawyers, teachers and engineers, pharmists and nurses, accountants, business men and women and one university president. My father and his brothers would get together to talk at the next wedding or funeral. The discussion was never about what kind of house you lived in, or what kind of car you drove. It was about the education of your children, and it was to brag about the latest accomplishment. So the pressure on us was extrordinary to make sure that we got our father in on the bragging rights for what we had accomplished recently. That message was very powerful: the responsibility and the privilege of what we were able to take advantage of that they had not been able to take advantage of - and that was public affordable education. It took just one generation of access to make a difference.
Your action today opens up that window of opportunity for thousands of other students, who come to us having inherited their own parents' hopes of achieving the American Dream - that they might have opportunities to contribute, not only to their own families' well-being, but to that of a nation with a revered history of opening those doors for others. No greater allegiance is there, than to that which has given you a leg up; not a handout, but an opportunity to study hard, work hard, and to contribute to the wellbeing of others and succeed.
This action today, that you are contemplating, will serve to sustain our democracy.
But it also reaches to new heights. Because the Rio Grande Valley is perched at the epicenter of the Americas, just a few steps away from Texas' largest and most important trading partner. A strategic business model claims its advantage, and then it works to maximize it.
The Valley is strategically positioned to become the epicenter and the gatewat to the Americas. While we did not invent the global economy, we mean to take strategic advantage it. We are poised to be able to produce bi-literate graduates with complex cultural competency to deal in a global environment. With the well-earned and enviable brand of the UT System and the fast growing human capital hungry for opportunity in the Valley propelling our trajectory, we stand poised to innovate, to expand and to claim our unique and authentic advantage.
We cannot afford to be remembered for those that we excluded. Instead we should be remembered for those we included, who are working to make their generation the one that ends the vicious cycle of illiteracy and poverty.
We need our minority and at-risk students; we need them educated, bi-literate, and equipped with skills that can transcend state and national borders. We need them to teach our children and to design our homes. We need them to care for us when we're ill and to perform life-saving surgeries.
The fate of our children and of our country lies not in the past, but in its future; and the future is in your hands.
Once in a very great while, if we are privileged, we have the individual and collective opportunity to make a profound difference in our world. Your action is one of those rare and privileged.
I personally support and applaud the Chancellor's vision for the Rio Grande Valley; a vision that I have heard each of you attest to, personally, and have witnessed you seak to help make a reality. I ask for this Board to affirm it today before those of us gathered here and before the people of the great state of Texas.
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Lil Wayne has been hospitalized in the past because of seizures. And there has been much speculation about what caused them.
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A 2012 National Institute on Drug Abuse survey found over 5 percent of high school seniors said they had gotten high off of cough medicine.
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"Studies show that people stay at work longer and the unemployment rates are half of what they are for a college degree as if you only had a high school degree," says Goode.
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US teen Shiffrin wins Cup slalomTHe Associated Press | January 05,2013ZAGREB, Croatia Mikaela Shiffrin is living up to her billing as skiings next big star.
The 17-year-old captured a slalom by a massive 1.19-second margin Friday night, becoming the first American woman to win two World Cup races before turning 18. Her first career victory came last month in Sweden.
Everything went really well today, said Shiffrin, who had the fastest time in both runs. It felt great.
She leads the World Cup slalom standings and even overtook Lindsey Vonn as the top American in the overall standings.
Vonn resumed training Thursday after a monthlong break from the circuit but skipped this race. Shiffrin has 426 points overall to 414 for Vonn. Both are way behind leader Tina Maze of Slovenia, who has 1,139 points despite going out in the second run Friday.
Its definitely one of my goals to win the slalom title, Shiffrin said. And then the GS (giant slalom) title, and sometime the overall. Right now, I am taking it day by day and race by race.
The overall crown might take some because Shiffrin competes only in the technical disciplines. But for now she is in the midst of a breakthrough season after becoming the youngest woman since 1977 to win two slalom races in one season. She also has six more top-10 finishes.
I had a tricky time last year, a couple of races where I straddled (a gate), Shiffrin said. This year I fixed that and have found my groove.
Shiffrin leads the slalom standings with 336 points, followed by Veronika Velez Zuzulova of Slovakia with 312 and Maze with 310.
Shiffrin led by nearly a half second after the first run and extended her advantage in the second, finishing in a combined 2 minutes, 1.73 seconds.
I was just letting my skis taking me to the bottom, and that is what I am looking for, she said.
She became the youngest winner in nine editions of the Zagreb event, which is billed as the Snow Queen Trophy. The winner is awarded a crown of glass and a robe. The crown, however, broke into pieces in a box.
I think I have a new Halloween costume for next year, Shiffrin said. First I need to glue (the crown) back together.
Shiffrin was helped by mistakes from her closest challengers after the opening leg Maze and Swedens Maria Pietilae-Holmner, who both failed to finish their final run.
Frida Hansdotter of Sweden was second and Erin Mielzynski of Canada was 1.76 behind in third. The rest of the field finished more than two seconds behind Shiffrin.
Hansdotter called Shiffrin an amazing skier.
And she doesnt think too much, Hansdotter said. She just goes for it.
Velez Zuzulova won the last two races in Semmering, Austria; Munich but finished 24th Friday after a mistake in her second run brought her to a standstill. Maze straddled a gate in the second run.
Slalom world champion Marlies Schild of Austria, who won on this course the last two seasons, has been ruled out for three months after knee surgery in December.
Shiffrin said she was back to full strength after fighting a persistent cold in December.
I was a little bit sick, I think I have my energy back now, she said after the first run.
Shiffrins American teammate Resi Stiegler finished ninth for her best result since recovering from knee surgery following her crash at last years World Cup finals.
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GAO-13-325: Published: Mar 28, 2013. Publicly Released: Mar 28, 2013.
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What GAO Found
The Department of Defenses (DOD) competition rate for all contract obligations declined over the past five fiscal years, from 62.6 percent in fiscal year 2008 to 57.1 percent in fiscal year 2012. GAO also found that the competition rate in fiscal year 2012 varied by specific DOD component with the Air Force having the lowest at 37.1 percent and the Defense Logistics Agency the highest at 83.3 percent. The majority of the noncompetitive awards cited the availability of only one responsible source to meet the governments needs as the reason for using noncompetitive procedures.
A number of factors affect DODs competition rate, but these factors are not always considered when setting DODs annual competition goals. For example, reliance on an original equipment manufacturer throughout the life cycle of a program has been a long-standing challenge for DOD competition, and budget uncertainty can also hinder DODs ability to compete. Noncompetitive purchases that DOD makes on behalf of foreign governments can also affect DODs competition rate. DOD does not systematically consider these and other factors when setting its annual competition goals. For example, it sets competition goals for individual DOD components by simply adding two percentage points to the rate achieved in the previous year. Without identifying and tracking the specific factors affecting competition DOD cannot set meaningful goals for improving competition or accurately gauge its progress toward achieving them.
Many of the noncompetitive justifications GAO reviewed included the required elements as defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation; however, the level of insight into the reasons for noncompetitive awards varied. For example, some justifications included clear descriptions of market environments where only one source was available to meet the governments needs or described planned actions that could help improve competition in the future. However, other justifications provided limited insight into the reasons for the noncompetitive award or did not fully describe actions that the agency could take to increase future competition. Without this information, DOD may be missing opportunities to gain a fuller understanding of why past acquisitions were not competitive and may be unable to apply those lessons to effectively facilitate competition for future acquisitions.
In 2010, DOD introduced a new requirement that applies to competitive awards that elicit only one offer (one-offer awards); however, the impact of the requirement is unknown because of unreliable data. To address the risk associated with one-offer awards, the requirement established rules that were intended to help ensure adequate solicitation time, ensure that contract requirements are not unnecessarily restrictive, and verify that offers received are fair and reasonable. However, GAOs analysis of 35 one-offer awards determined that contracting officers had incorrectly coded 10 of these awards in the procurement database that DOD relies on to measure the impact of its new requirement. Six of the 10 awards were noncompetitive awards and the remaining 4 had received multiple offers. As a result, GAO determined that DODs data cannot be used to accurately calculate the amount obligated on one-offer awards during fiscal year 2012. Without reliable data, DOD cannot accurately measure the impact of its new requirement.
Why GAO Did This Study
Competition is the cornerstone of a sound acquisition process and a critical tool for achieving the best return on investment for taxpayers. In fiscal year 2012, DOD obligated $359 billion through contracts and task orders, of which 57 percent was competed. DOD also obligates billions of dollars annually on contracts that are awarded competitively, but for which the government received only one offer. DOD implemented the Better Buying Power initiative in 2010, in an effort to increase competition.
The conference report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 directed GAO to report on DODs non-competitive and one-offer contracts. GAO examined (1) trends in DODs use of noncompetitive awards; (2) factors influencing DODs competition rate; (3) the extent to which justifications provided insight into the reasons for noncompetitive awards; and (4) the impact of DODs new requirement for competitive solicitations that only elicit one offer. GAO analyzed federal procurement data for fiscal years 2008 through 2012, reviewed DOD policy and competition reports, examined nongeneralizable samples of awards, and interviewed DOD officials.
What GAO Recommends
GAO recommends that DOD identify, track, and consider the specific factors that affect competition when setting competition goals; develop guidance to apply lessons learned from past procurements to help achieve competition in the future; and collect reliable data on one-offer awards. DOD concurred with these recommendations.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Open
Comments: DOD concurred with our recommendation and commented that it will consider specific factors affecting competition in setting annual competition goals. However, DOD has not yet taken agency-wide action.
Recommendation: To better inform DOD's efforts to enhance competition, the Secretary of Defense should identify and track the specific factors that affect the competition rate, such as foreign military sales, and consider this information when setting annual competition goals for each DOD component.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Open
Comments: DOD concurred with our recommendation and commented that it plans to work with components to develop guidance and tools to analyze procurement data to apply lessons learned to increase competition for the same good and services in the future. The department also plans to discuss this information at future Competition Advocates meetings. However, DOD has not yet taken agency-wide action. In addition, in April 2013, the Air Force established a new requirement that justifications for procurements valued at over $650,000 must include the justification for noncompetitive predecessor acquisitions as reference documents.
Recommendation: To better inform DOD's efforts to enhance competition, the Secretary of Defense should develop guidance that could enable DOD components to apply lessons learned from past procurements to increase competition for the same good and services in the future.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Open
Comments: DOD concurred with our recommendation and commented that it will take two actions. First, it plans to review existing training and procedures for reporting of contract actions in FPDS-NG. Second, it plans to update guidance on the reporting of competitive procurements in which only one offer is received to increase the reliability of the data and better understand the impact of the new requirement on one-offer contracts. The department also plans to discuss this information at future Competition Advocates meetings. However, DOD has not yet taken agency-wide action. The Air Force has established mandatory training on data coding for all contracting personnel responsible for entering this information.
Recommendation: To better inform DOD's efforts to enhance competition, the Secretary of Defense should develop an action plan for DOD components to collect reliable data on competitive procurements for which only one offer is received, so that the department can determine the effect of its new requirement on one-offer contracts.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
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Sep 19, 2014
DOD Joint Bases:Implementation Challenges Demonstrate Need to Reevaluate the ProgramGAO-14-577: Published: Sep 19, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 19, 2014.
Sep 18, 2014
Depot Maintenance:Accurate and Complete Data Needed to Meet DOD's Core Capability Reporting RequirementsGAO-14-777: Published: Sep 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 18, 2014.
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Defense Planning:DOD Needs Specific Measures and Milestones to Gauge Progress of Preparations for Operational Access ChallengesGAO-14-801: Published: Sep 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2014.
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Contract Management:DOD's Implementation of Justifications for 8(a) Sole-Source ContractsGAO-14-721R: Published: Sep 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2014.
Military Personnel:DOD Needs to Take Further Actions to Prevent Sexual Assault during Initial Military TrainingGAO-14-806: Published: Sep 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2014.
Military Personnel:DOD Needs to Update General and Flag Officer Requirements and Improve Availability of Associated CostsGAO-14-745: Published: Sep 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2014.
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Defense Infrastructure:DOD Needs to Improve Its Efforts to Identify Unutilized and Underutilized FacilitiesGAO-14-538: Published: Sep 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 8, 2014.
DOD Education Benefits:Action Is Needed to Ensure Evaluations of Postsecondary Schools Are UsefulGAO-14-855: Published: Sep 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 8, 2014.
Special Operations Forces:DOD's Report to Congress Generally Addressed the Statutory Requirements but Lacks DetailGAO-14-820R: Published: Sep 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 8, 2014.
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Active and Reserve Unit Costs:DOD Report to Congress Generally Addressed the Statutory Requirements but Lacks DetailGAO-14-711R: Published: Jul 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 31, 2014.
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When Karen Bouse was in her late forties, a series of puzzling dizzy spells sent her to the doctor's office. It turned out the dizziness was linked to stress, but the blood tests her doctor ordered yielded an unpleasant surprise—Bouse was prediabetic.
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The problem of prediabetes, defined as overly high blood sugar (a fasting glucose level of 100 to 125 milligrams per deciliter or a two-hour glucose reading of 140 to 99), isn't just that it's the stepping-stone to the full-blown disease. A study of more than a million people published last January found that just being prediabetic was linked to developing, and dying from, several types of cancer. "And simply having blood sugar levels in the prediabetic range puts people at 50 percent greater risk of heart disease or stroke," says Massachusetts General Hospital dietitian Linda Delahanty, author of Beating Diabetes.
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