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June 29, 2012 By AMK

Procurement chief’s priorities are buying smarter, effective vendor relationships, and acquisition workforce development

Some agencies have so little understanding of what their “sister agencies pay for commodities, it’s shocking,” said Joe Jordan, newly installed administrator of the White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy. The “paucity of pricing data” in one case involving bulk purchases of BlackBerry mobile devices meant a price variance of 100 percent, he said.

Jordan offered an overview of his office’s agenda at a Thursday breakfast for the contracting community put on by the Professional Services Council.

His three top priorities are buying smarter, creating effective relationships with government suppliers and developing the acquisition workforce.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2012/06/procurement-chief-seeks-sharing-contract-pricing-data-star-recruits/56512/?oref=dropdown.

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, acquisition training, acquisition workforce, communication, cost and pricing, DoD, myth-busting, OFPP, OMB, strategic sourcing

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