Council Responsibilities

As found in 9-342 of the Code of Virginia

1. Examines and promotes methods of providing a portion or all of select government-provided or government-produced programs and services through the private sector by a competitive contracting program.
2. Develops an institutional framework for a statewide competitive program to encourage innovation and competition within state government.
3. Establishes a system to encourage the use of feasibility studies and innovation to determine where competition could reduce government costs without harming the public.
4. Monitors the products and services of state agencies to bring an element of competition and to ensure a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship to compete with the private sector.
5. Advocates, develops and accelerates implementation of a competitive program for state entities to ensure competition for the provision of production of government services, or both, from both public and private sector entities.
6. Establishes approval, planning, and reporting processes required to carry out the functions of the Council.
7. Determines the privatization potential of a program or activity; performs cost/benefit analyses; and conducts public and private performance analyses. The Secretary of Finance independently certifies the results of the comparison.
8. Devises, in consultation with the Secretary of Finance, evaluation criteria to be used in conducting performance reviews of any program or activity which is subject to a privatization recommendation.
9. Makes its services available for a fair compensation to any political subdivision of the Commonwealth.
10. Reviews the practices of government agencies and nonprofit organizations which may constitute inappropriate competition with private enterprise. The Council develops proposals for (i) preserving the traditional role of private enterprise; (ii) encouraging the expansion of existing, and the creation of new, private enterprise; and (iii) monitoring inappropriate competition by nonprofit organizations.