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Contractors could be held to feds' conflict-of-interest standards (FCW.com)
Regulators are considering inserting personal and organizational conflict-of-interest clauses in federal contracts.
Contractors-could-be-held-to-feds.pdf
DoD officials to monitor time-and-materials contract usage (FCW.com)
Defense Department officials must determine if they have been using time-and-materials contracts and task orders when other types of contracts might have worked just as well.
DOD-officials-to-monitor-time.pdf
Survey: Agencies Lag in Procurement Practices (GovExec, January 2, 2007)
Agencies could benefit from adopting commercial best
practices such as strategic sourcing, as well as from using innovative
options such as interagency contracts and public-private partnerships, a
private study found.
http://www.governmenthorizons.org/SurveyAgencies.htm
Highlights of a GAO Forum: Federal
Acquisition Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century (GAO-07-45SP)
October 6, 2006
In the 21st century, the government needs to
reexamine and evaluate its strategic and tactical approaches to
acquisition. A GAO forum, convened by the Comptroller General, identifies
key issues confronting the federal acquisition community and makes
recommendations for improvement in an environment of increasing reliance
on contractors and severe fiscal restraints.
http://www.governmenthorizons.org/gaoforum.pdf
Aligning Senior
Executives’ Performance with Organizational Results Is an Important Step
Toward Government-wide Transformation (GAO-06-1125T)
Testimony of Brenda S. Farrell, Acting Director, Strategic Issues: New
performance management system will help Senior Executives align
performance with operational goals.
http://www.governmenthorizons.org/HumanCapitalSEperformance.pdf
Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave DHS Highly
Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Improper, and Abusive Activity (GAO-06-1117)
Joint Report by the United States Government Accountability
Office and the Office of the Inspector General—Department of Homeland
Security to Congressional Committees
http://www.governmenthorizons.org/PurchaseCardDHS.pdf
Annual Report on the Federal Acquisition Workforce 2006
An examination of trends in employment, retirement, education and promotion patterns for seven GS
series in the acquisition workforce, FY99 through FY05.
http://www.governmenthorizons.org/FAWF2005.pdf
Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Establish an Implementing Directive to
Publish Information and Take Actions to Improve DOD Information on Critical Acquisition
Positions (GAO-06-987R)
DoD is required by statute to periodically publish a list of designated critical acquisition positions.
However, GAO did not find evidence of this objective consistently being met.
http://www.governmenthorizons.org/DoDAcquisitions.pdf
OFPP Policy Letter
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement/policy_letter_05-01.html
Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs
to Establish an Implementing Directive to Publish Information and Take
Actions to Improve DOD Information on Critical Acquisition Positions, a
letter from The Honorable Terry Everett, Chairman, House Subcommittee on
Strategic Forces Committee on Armed Services
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06987r.pdf
OMB to agencies:
Use more performance-based contracts
http://www.fcw.com/article102828-05-25-07-Web
In a memo
released to Chief Acquisition Officers (CAOs) and Senior Procurement
Executives (SPEs) dated June 1, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy
(OFPP) Administrator Paul Denett outlines acquisition reforms designed
to reinforce the use of competition and related practices for achieving
an effective competitive environment.
http://www.governmenthorizons.org/competition_memo_053107.pdf
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