Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 1.djvu/1256

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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1976

9 0 STAT. 1206

System improvements plan, contracts.

Reports to commission and Comptroller General.

System design plan.

PUBLIC LAW 9 4 - 3 9 9 — S E P T. 4, 1976

of improving the financial planning, reporting, and control systems of such government. Plans to be considered for development and implementation pursuant to this Act shall include, among others, plans for the following: immediate improvement in financial control and reporting; assessing the scope of further necessary improvements; financial management system improvements; personnel-payroll system improvements; water-sewage billing and information system improvements; purchasing and material management system improvements; property accounting system improvements; real property system improvements; welfare payments system improvements; human resources eligibility, payment, and reporting system improvements; health care financial system improvements; and traffic ticket system control improvements. (b) Each contract entered into with a person pursuant to subsection (c) of this section for the development of a system improvements plan shall contain a provision requiring that person to include within such plan procedures for the establishment of an ongoing training program for operating personnel of the government of the District of Columbia whose duties involve matters covered by such plan or part thereof in order to provide training for such personnel in connection with the operation of such system. Each such contract shall further contain provisions comparable to those provided by Standard Form 32, section 1-16.901-32 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. (c) Upon the selection by the commission of each qualified person to develop and implement a plan pursuant to this section, the chairman of the commission shall enter into a negotiated fixed price contract or contracts with that person for the development and implementation of such plan. (d)(1) Each such contract so entered into shall set forth the scope of the work to be performed, amounts to be paid thereunder, and a schedule of reporting and completion dates, including a schedule of implementation dates, for each portion of such work. Each contractor shall have full access to such books, individuals, accounts, financial records, reports, files, and other papers, things, or property of the government of the District of Columbia as such contractor deems necessary to complete such contract. The Comptroller General shall have full access to all documents produced under each contract. (2) After establishment of the schedule for completing each such contract and until the completion of such contract, each contractor shall report, at such time as such contract shall provide, to the commission and the Comptroller General on the progress toward completion of such contract, except that each such contractor shall report at least once during the one-hundred-and-eighty-day period after establishment of such schedule for completion of such contract. (e)(1) With respect to any such contract or part thereof involving the design (including a preliminary design) of a S3^stem referred to in subsection (a) of this section, the contractor, upon the completion of the plan or part relating to such design (including procedures for its implementation), shall submit such plan or part, together with a schedule for its implementation, to the Comptroller General. (2) With respect to any such contract involving work other than the design of such a system, the contractor, upon the completion of the plan or part thereof relating to such work, shall submit such plan or part thereof, together with a schedule for implementing such plan or part, to the Comptroller General.