Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil ServiceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 |
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agencies ALEXANDER asked Assistant Postmaster audit award Bailar BARTON basis believe bidder Blue Cross Blue Cross-Blue Shield Blue Shield Burnaford carriers Chairman Civil Service CLAY COLLINS committee competitive Congress Congressman contract contractor cost delivery EIDSON Ernst & Ernst evaluation Fairfield Bay Federal employees firm Government HANLEY hearings HENDERSON HOLLAND hospital JACQUES Klassen LAUR letter Little Rock mail service MCCUTCHEON ment mental health million negotiated newspapers operation patients percent Post Office Department Postal Reorganization Act problem procedures procurement proposed psychiatric question received recommendations request requirements responsibility retirement ROUSSELOT rural areas rural free delivery rural routes SCHROEDER sectional center Segal sole source staff star route statement subcommittee testimony Thank thing TINSLEY tion TRAHERN U.S. Postal Service USPS utilization WALDIE Wall Street Journal Washington West Memphis WILSON
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Stranica 15 - The association was formed in 1982 from the merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans, two companies whose roots form the foundation of prepaid health care in America.
Stranica 29 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Stranica 41 - Operations included 135 mail routes wherein compensation for carrying the mail was raised from over $143.000 to over $622,000. This was accomplished by securing petitions from localities interested for an increase in the number of trips, the schedule time for each trip being shortened, and contracts increased in number and cost. Prosecutions followed, the laws were changed, and such instances became a thing of the past." From inception of the service the contractual form of operation has been productive...
Stranica 184 - The Postal Service shall provide a maximum degree of effective and regular postal services to rural areas, communities, and small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining. No small post office shall be closed solely for operating at a deficit, it being the specific intent of the Congress that effective postal services be insured to residents of both urban and rural communities.
Stranica 30 - The effect of rate increases upon the general public, business mail users, and enterprises in the private sector of the economy engaged in the delivery of mail matter other than letters.
Stranica 42 - ... for technical or special property that he determines to require a substantial initial investment or an extended period of preparation for manufacture, and for which he determines that formal advertising and competitive bidding might require duplication of investment or preparation already made or would unduly delay the procurement of that property...
Stranica 42 - ... or were not independently reached in open competition, and for which (A) he has notified each responsible bidder of intention to negotiate and given him reasonable opportunity to negotiate; (B) the negotiated price is lower than the lowest rejected bid of any responsible bidder, as determined by the head of the agency; and (C) the negotiated price is the lowest negotiated price offered by any responsible supplier...
Stranica 41 - ... it is determined that such action is necessary in the public interest during a national emergency declared by Congress or the President...
Stranica 51 - This action should include both examination of the reasons for the procurement being noncompetitive and steps to foster competitive conditions for subsequent procurements, particularly as to the availability of complete and accurate data, reasonableness of delivery requirements (1-305.2 (a) ), and possible breakout of components for competitive procurement.
Stranica 39 - Section 2304 is amended by adding a new subsection as follows: "(g) In all negotiated procurements in excess of $2,500 in which rates or prices are not fixed by law or regulation and in which time of delivery will permit proposals shall be solicited from the maximum number of qualified sources consistent with the nature and requirements of the supplies or services to be procured...