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August 7, 2012 By AMK

Former OFPP officials say government in state of ‘paralysis’

Convoluted oversight regulations, too many multiple-award contracts and a lack of top-down support has put the federal government in a state of paralysis when it comes to acquisitions, one former procurement official said last Thursday (8/2/2012) at the Multiple Award Government and Industry Conference.

Deidre Lee, now the executive director of compliance at the Fluor Corporation and a former head of federal and Defense acquisition, said it takes too long to get things done in today’s oversight-heavy world. The costs in time and money to redo procurement is causing agencies to move slower, not faster, as Congress intended multiple-award contracts to do when they created them 20 years ago.

Keep reading this article at http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=517&sid=2966803.

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, acquisition training, acquisition workforce, best practice, DoD, GAO, industrial base, MAC, multiple award contract, OFPP

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