By Haywood                                            S.C.R. No. 32
         77R5722 MTD-D                           
                                CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
 1-1           WHEREAS, Government is under increasing pressure to reduce
 1-2     costs while at the same time, citizens expect the services provided
 1-3     by government to improve; one way to reconcile the issues of
 1-4     reduced funding and improved services is to introduce competition
 1-5     into the operation of government; and
 1-6           WHEREAS, To that end, state agencies should consider adopting
 1-7     a managed competition model as a means of containing the costs of
 1-8     government services while ensuring that the services that taxpayers
 1-9     receive are delivered as efficiently and effectively as possible;
1-10     and
1-11           WHEREAS, Managed competition provides an equal opportunity
1-12     for governmental agencies to compete with private vendors to
1-13     provide government services in the most economic and efficient
1-14     manner; and
1-15           WHEREAS, Under managed competition, agency employees analyze
1-16     and reengineer an internal business task and develop a proposal
1-17     that is compared to the best private sector bid; and
1-18           WHEREAS, If the private sector bid is more cost-effective and
1-19     provides the best service delivery, the contract is awarded to the
1-20     vendor; if the agency employee's proposal is more cost-effective,
1-21     the internal business task is reengineered according to the
1-22     proposal and the agency continues to provide the service; and
1-23           WHEREAS, In order to enable state agencies to implement
1-24     managed competition, the following recommendations should be
 2-1     considered:
 2-2                 1.  use a consistent methodology when selecting
 2-3     projects for managed competition;
 2-4                 2.  develop an internal program to ensure that managed
 2-5     competition projects are designed to facilitate a fair and
 2-6     equitable process for both state employees and private vendors;
 2-7                 3.  develop a transition program for employees who lose
 2-8     their jobs due to a managed competition; and
 2-9           WHEREAS, Each state agency has an ongoing responsibility to
2-10     ensure that its processes are carried out as effectively and
2-11     efficiently as possible and managed competition is a tool to
2-12     achieve this goal; now, therefore, be it
2-13           RESOLVED, That the 77th Legislature of the State of Texas
2-14     hereby direct all state agencies to consider implementing a managed
2-15     competition process in order to reduce costs and improve services
2-16     and to consider using the methodology of the comptroller of public
2-17     accounts to administer the process; and, be it further
2-18           RESOLVED, That the secretary of state forward an official
2-19     copy of this resolution to the executive director of each state
2-20     agency.