Federal Manager's Daily Report Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Published by FEDweek, the federal government's largest information resource with now over one million weekly readers to its electronic newsletters.
*********************************************************** Federal Manager's Daily Report is a brand new FREE daily electronic report for all federal managers and supervisors featuring the day's top stories on management and workforce issues. Please pass this information on to your fellow colleagues. You can sign up for this free daily report at http://www.fedweek.com/subscribepopup.htm. *********************************************************** In Today's Issue: 1. OPM Links Presidential Quality Award to PMA 2. GAO: Tax Haven Companies Have Advantage in Federal Contracting 3. FAA Ordered to Hire Additional Systems Specialists *********************************************************** 1. OPM Links Presidential Quality Award to PMA The Office of Personnel Management has announced two changes to the president's quality award program -- used to recognize programs and employees - that it says more strongly links it to the president's management agenda. In its call for 2004 PQA applications, it said the first change provides for three separate categories, designed to recognize specific innovative and exemplary practices, overall agency achievement in each of the five PMA initiatives, and "overall agency management and how effectively the different management systems are integrated." The second establishes criteria for submitting applications in each category. To submit an application in the "innovative and exemplary practices category," agencies must have at least a yellow rating in the PMA initiative under which it is made. "For submissions under the five government wide initiatives the condition is a status green score for the initiative under which the submission is made," said OPM. It said, "for submissions in the overall management category the condition is status green scores in two of the five government wide PMA initiatives and no reds." "The awards recognize agencies and employees for their achievements in creating integrated systems and practices which better support the achievement of their respective agency missions," said OPM. It said agencies not scored under the PMA can only submit applications under the innovative and exemplary practices category, and only if the programs and employees "directly and materially advance the common sense management objectives of the PMA." Submissions are due Oct. 1. Award criteria and instructions are available at: www.opm.gov/pqa. 2. GAO: Tax Haven Companies Have Advantage in Federal Contracting Tax haven contractors -- U.S. subsidiaries of corporate parents located in tax haven countries -- may have an advantage when competing for federal contracts, the Government Accountability Office has said. It said those companies are able to shift income off shore and have lower taxes on additional income from a contract, thereby enabling it to offer a lower price relative to non-haven domestic companies. "One way for a contractor to gain a tax cost advantage is by reducing its U.S. taxable income from other sources to less than zero and by using its losses to offset some or all of the additional income from a contract, resulting in less tax on the contract income," according to GAO-04-856. It said in 2002 the federal government was involved in some 8.5 million contract actions and awards worth over $250 billion, and that some of the contracts were given to tax haven contractors. 3. FAA Ordered to Hire Additional Systems Specialists The Federal Labor Relations Authority has upheld an arbitrator's decision ordering the Federal Aviation Administration to raise its number of systems specialists to a minimum of 6,100 nationwide, according to Professional Airways Systems Specialists, the union representing those employees. It said FAA, having placed the systems specialist position at a low budget priority, has for two years maintained well below the 6,100 positions it agreed to in 2000 that are needed to "safely certify and maintain the air traffic control system." "There are serious safety issues for operating the air traffic control system without enough systems specialists," said PASS, urging FAA to start hiring right away in compliance with the arbitrator's decision. Published by FEDweek LLC 11551 Nuckols Rd. 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