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Federal Prison Industries: Information on Product Pricing

GGD-98-151 Published: Aug 24, 1998. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 1998.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Federal Prison Industries' (FPI) product pricing, focusing on: (1) the laws and regulations governing how FPI is to price its products; (2) the policies and procedures FPI uses to ensure that its products are priced in accordance with the laws and regulations; (3) whether FPI followed these policies and procedures when it set prices for selected products; and (4) a comparison of FPI's prices with those charged by private vendors for selected products.

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