Letter: Agencies not able to perform duties is giving away governmental functions

A reader writes that agencies unable to perform central functions without contractors is essentially giving away governmental functions to private companies.

Regarding "What is inherently governmental?"

The last statement is really the bottom line "…agencies must maintain a capability for performing central functions without contractors. They cannot let their institutional knowledge dry up… ." To do other wise is to give away or sell a governmental function to a profit-driven operation using contracts.

Ralph Randall

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