Scope
Federal Procurement Reports provide contract data that may be used for geographical, market, and socio-economic analysis, as well as for measuring and assessing the impact of acquisition policy and management improvements.
In Fiscal Year 2010, the top five departments by dollars obligated were:
- Department of Defense ($365.9 bn)
- Department of Energy ($25.7 bn)
- Health and Human Services ($19.0 bn)
- General Services Administration ($17.6 bn)
- NASA ($16.0 bn).
The Top 100 Contractors Report for Fiscal Year 2009 lists contracts totalling $294.6 billion, the top five comprising aerospace and defense contractors:
- Lockheed Martin ($38.5 bn)
- Boeing ($22.0 bn)
- Northrop Grumman ($19.7 bn)
- General Dynamics ($16.4 bn)
- Raytheon ($16.1 bn)
In the same period, small business contracts totalled $96.8 billion.
Read more about this topic: Government Procurement In The United States
Famous quotes containing the word scope:
“A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.”
—Gail Hamilton (1833–1896)
“Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non- participants—even women!—new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.”
—Selma James (b. 1930)