Gary Price [note his new URL] passed along this Washington Post Story on a Bush administration requirement for competitive bids on some $500 million in yearly contracts at the GPO. They say the Office of Management and Budget, headed by Daniels, estimated the government would save $50 million to $70 million annually in printing and copying contracts now handled exclusively by the Government Printing Office.
\”The time has come for the executive branch to liberate its agencies from a monopoly that unfairly penalizes both taxpayers and efficient would-be competitors,\” budget Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. said in a memo Friday to federal agencies.\”
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