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Defense depot wins A-76 competition
Employees of a Defense Logistics Agency warehouse have won a public-private competition that will keep their jobs in-house, agency officials announced Wednesday.
About 40 employees of the Defense Distribution Depot in Columbus, Ohio triumphed over private-sector rivals in a competition to decide who could operate the warehouse most efficiently and at the lowest cost.
In March 1998, DLA announced that work at its 16 distribution depots would be competed under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.
"The competitive process for obtaining these critical distribution services was a tough one," said Daniel H. Stone, commander of DLA's Defense Logistics Support Command. "This is a key step in bringing competition to bear in improving the entire military logistics system."
The Columbus distribution warehouse, which supplies low-demand and reserve stock items to military forces and civilian federal agencies, is the first of the 16 DLA depots to complete the A-76 process. The remaining depots are being competed over a five-year period that ends in 2003.
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