Doe Management Opportunities For Saving Millions In Contractor Travel Costs Report To The Subcommittee On Energy And Water Development Committee On Appropriations House Of Representatives

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Download or read book DOE Management: Opportunities for Saving Millions in Contractor Travel Costs written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Energy (DOE) incurs hundreds of millions of dollars in travel costs each year. About 80 percent of these costs are incurred by the contractors managing and/or operating the Department's various facilities. DOE has been concerned about travel costs and in 1995 implemented a 5-year, $175 million travel cost-reduction initiative to reduce travel costs by $35 million per year, of which $30 million would come from contractors. Because of your concern about the Department's contractor travel costs, you requested that we examine certain issues related to these costs and DOE'S cost-reduction efforts. As discussed with your office, we agreed to (1) provide information on the travel costs incurred by DOE contractors and their primary destinations during fiscal years 1996 through 1998, (2) identify the purpose of this travel, and (3) assess the success that DOE has had in reducing contractor travel costs and identify additional actions available to reduce these costs further. In addition, we agreed to examine the travel and other costs associated with contractor employees on assignment to Washington, D.C.