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GPO Unveils Sweeping ReorganizationThe Government Printing Office announced a reorganization plan March 26 modeled after the private sector and intended to streamline the agency. Under the plan, the GPO will add a chief operating officer to supervise day-to-day activities, freeing Public Printer Bruce James to focus on the agency’s overall operations and future, the Washington Post reported March 27. The overhaul will also consolidate the agency’s programs, organizing them into offices that, along business models, will each be headed by one officer; a chief financial officer, the Post explained, will oversee the GPO’s financial and administrative concerns. A new Office of Innovations and Partnerships will investigate new technologies and ways private-sector techniques can be put to use. Spokesman Andrew Sherman told the Post that James is “creating a business model” for the agency, “using tried and proven strategies and methodologies for carrying out change that have been used in the private sector, importing them to the Government Printing Office, and making them work here.” The GPO came under fire from the administration last year, with Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels telling federal agencies that they should not be required to obtain their printing services through the printing office. The Post noted that when OMB subsequently opened the job of printing the FY2004 federal budget to competitive bidding, the GPO’s bid was almost 24% lower than its price from the previous year. The White House said the bidding process proved competition could save the government money, while the printing office said it showed the agency’s competitiveness. Posted March 31, 2003. |
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