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  Rating Contractors on Service

  There should be an Angie's list for government contractors. There are several bad contractors who float from agency to agency failing to produce or providing a poor product but we don't track that or warn other federal agencies. This is also true for leased office space. The federal government needs to develop an Agnie's list like web site so people can be warned about these bad contractors. This would improved efficiency ...more »

  There should be an Angie's list for government contractors. There are several bad contractors who float from agency to agency failing to produce or providing a poor product but we don't track that or warn other federal agencies. This is also true for leased office space.

  The federal government needs to develop an Agnie's list like web site so people can be warned about these bad contractors. This would improved efficiency and effective by eliminating bad contractors and making contractors accountable. This would also prevent horror stories where contractor fulful the letter of the law but not the spirit of the contract. For example one company was contracted with the army to delivery a missile on a certain date. They delivered parts for a missile but it was not assembled but delivering the parts fulfulled hte letter of the contract but not the spirit.

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  Insuring the government gets value for its money

  Also the government should pay more for something than it charged to the general public or use systems that are substandard. Examples of this waste is Gov Trip, and Fed Travel, why not work out a deal with kayak, or travelocity since these services are free? Why is DHS paying $24,000 per e-mail account with less than 1 gigabyte of storage when you can get free e-mails accounts from Microsoft or Google with 5 gigabytes ...more »

  Also the government should pay more for something than it charged to the general public or use systems that are substandard. Examples of this waste is Gov Trip, and Fed Travel, why not work out a deal with kayak, or travelocity since these services are free?

  Why is DHS paying $24,000 per e-mail account with less than 1 gigabyte of storage when you can get free e-mails accounts from Microsoft or Google with 5 gigabytes of storage?

  Before any contracts are done or renewed compare the product to the what is publically avialble and it is not more cost effective or efficient go with the cheaper product or recompete the contract so it reflects what is publicly available. This should bring costs of Fed Traveler and Gov Trip in line with travelocity and require the SAME LEVEL of customer satification instead the contractors being happy with their service and product. The users have to be happy. For every 10% customer satifistication is under 90% dock the contractoer 20% which will be returned to general fund and it will noted on publicly avaiable web site so this contractor can be avoided in the future.

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  More efficient use of this system

  I have noticed that a number of ideas are more social causes and not ideas to reduce gov't waste such as smoke free environments. Another area is e government programs that don't work or work poorly like gov trip. Why not look at last years ideas and creat buckets so information is group together to reduce redundant suggestions and make for more effective voting. Also lets some select some ideas that really make a difference. ...more »

  I have noticed that a number of ideas are more social causes and not ideas to reduce gov't waste such as smoke free environments.

  Another area is e government programs that don't work or work poorly like gov trip.

  Why not look at last years ideas and creat buckets so information is group together to reduce redundant suggestions and make for more effective voting.

  Also lets some select some ideas that really make a difference. last year's winners were alright but did they really make a difference.

  The thumbs up and down make sense as well as reporting abusive comments

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  Fair Trade

  Lets charge a tarrif on imported goods that is equal to Tarrif charged by exporting country on our goods. For example China Charges 25% on our good going to their country so we should do the same. If we make it fair trade, than we will have free trade. By having these tarriffs , we will also encourage domestic production as well becase there will be more profit in domestic production. It will also decrease imports improving ...more »

  Lets charge a tarrif on imported goods that is equal to Tarrif charged by exporting country on our goods. For example China Charges 25% on our good going to their country so we should do the same. If we make it fair trade, than we will have free trade. By having these tarriffs , we will also encourage domestic production as well becase there will be more profit in domestic production. It will also decrease imports improving our trade balance

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