Opportunities That Mean Jobs
This week the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum “Improving Acquisition through Strategic Sourcing.” The memorandum establishes a new Strategic Sourcing Leadership Council...
View ArticleThirteen Thoughts for 2013
Today marks the end of the first full work week of 2013. Welcome back everybody! The Coalition hopes all had a wonderful Holiday Season. This time of year everybody does lists. This year the...
View ArticleThought No. 2: The GSA Expo: To Be or Not To Be
Thought No. 2 of the “Thirteen Thoughts for 2013”: The GSA Expo: To be or not to be. The GSA Expo is a Myth-Busters event that brings government and industry acquisition professionals together to...
View ArticleThought No. 3: ODCs in 2013!(?)
Thirteen Thoughts for 2013 continues this week with Thought No. 3: ODCs in 2013!(?) As you know, throughout the last year the Coalition for Common Sense in Government Procurement (the Coalition) has...
View ArticleThought No. 4: Contract Duplication. . .Hitting the Delete Button
This week “Thought No. 4” of the Thirteen Thoughts for 2013: Contract duplication. . . .hitting the delete button. The timing could not better for addressing this thought! Yesterday the Government...
View ArticleThought No. 5: Closing the door on the Demand Based Model in 2013!(?)
This week it is Thought No. 5 of the Thirteen Thoughts for 2013: “Closing the door on the Demand Based Model in 2013!(?).” In 2012 the General Services Administration issued a Federal Register notice...
View ArticleThought No. 6: Put “Commercial” Back in Commercial Item Contracting
March 1, 2013—Sequestration Day. This morning our 13 year-old son was reading the Wall Street Journal article on sequestration and asked me a question only a kid could ask: “So Dad, if I had a penny...
View ArticleMajor Issues from Multiple Award Schedule Preaward Audits
Originally, this blog post was to focus on Thought No.7, “From Strategic Source to Strategic Acquisition,” of the Thirteen Thoughts for 2013. The theme was to expand on my March 18th Federal Times...
View ArticleAchieving Excellence in Acquisition
It is Spring Break this week and we are in Ohio to visit family. It may not sound exotic or “Spring Break-like” but it has been lots of fun. We visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton— where...
View ArticleThought No. 8: GSA’s 2012 waiver of the Price Reduction Clause—a statement in...
This week’s blog post highlights Thought No. 8 of the Thirteen Thoughts for 2013: “GSA’s 2012 waiver of the Price Reduction Clause—a statement in favor of competition!” Last fall, the application of...
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The GSA Business Roundtable is right around the corner!
The May 22nd GSA Business Roundtable is a Myth-Busters event bringing together procurement professionals and senior executives from GSA and its industry partners for a dialogue focusing on Acting...
View ArticleCoalition Testimony before the House Small Business Subcommittee
Yesterday I testified in a hearing titled “Putting the Strategy in Sourcing: Challenge and Opportunities for Small Business Contractors” before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and...
View ArticleContinuing the Dialogue is More than Checking the Box!
In Roger’s absence we’d like to build on a previous blog post written by him on the importance of robust communication to maintain a federal acquisition system that responds to the needs of federal...
View ArticleContract Duplication Remains a Cost Drag on the Federal Acquisition System
Contract duplication increases bid and proposal, administration and management costs for government and industry. Last summer the Coalition issued a summary report highlighting the results of a...
View ArticleFederal Procurement System Word Association
As we approach the end of July here is a word association blog post regarding the federal procurement system. The word associations below are based on observations, comments and feedback we have...
View ArticleIt is Time to Take the GSA Schedules to the Next Level
On August 22, 2013, GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) posted a blog entitled “OASIS: What You Need to Know About GSA’s Plan to Reduce Contract Duplication.” The blog correctly notes that OASIS...
View ArticleGSA’s Strategic Plan: Plan versus Implementation
On January 10th the “FAR and Beyond” blog published a comment identifying fourteen key procurement items for 2014 that will be addressed throughout the year in future blog postings. This week it is...
View ArticleThe Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Rule: Is a competitive, unpriced...
Last week’s FAR & Beyond blog noted that GSA’s TDR rule raises significant policy and operational questions. This week’s blog examines whether the TDR rule moves the Federal Supply Schedule...
View ArticleThe Dog Days of Summer
The Dog Days of Summer typically see a slow-down in the procurement policy world. Not this year! Since Memorial Day, we have seen the issuance of the GSAR Commercial Supplier Agreement (CSA)...
View ArticleQuestions to GSA on the TDR Pilot
This week, the focus of this blog returns to GSA’s Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) rule. The transition from compliance with GSA’s current pricing policies to TDR is a major undertaking for both...
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