Findings

Congress makes the following findings: (1) Private sector business concerns, which are free to respond to the private or public demands of the marketplace, constitute the strength of the United States economic system. (2) Competitive private enterprises are the most productive, efficient, and effective sources of goods and services. (3) Unfair Government competition with the private sector of the economy is detrimental to the United States economic system. (4) Unfair Government competition with the private sector of the economy is at an unacceptably high level, both in scope and in dollar volume. (5) Current law and policy have failed to address adequately the problem of unfair Government competition with the private sector of the economy. (6) It is in the public interest that the Federal Government establish a consistent policy to rely on the private sector of the economy to provide goods and services necessary for or beneficial to the operation and management of Federal agencies and to avoid unfair Government competition with the private sector of the economy.