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December 14, 2012 By AMK

OMB launches governmentwide strategic sourcing initiative

The Office of Management and Budget launched a broad strategic sourcing initiative on Thursday to ensure all federal agencies manage their acquisitions effectively.

In a memo from OMB Acting Director Jeffery Zients, the initiative calls for federal agencies to increase its use of strategic sourcing for acquisition to “negotiate the best deal for the taxpayer.”

“While every agency must eliminate inefficiencies from its acquisition processes, this initiative puts additional responsibilities for designing and implementing government-wide strategic sourcing solutions on large agencies, which make up the vast majority of all Federal contracting,” Zients wrote in the memo.

Keep reading this article at: http://fedscoop.com/omb-launches-agency-wide-strategic-sourcing-initiative/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, acquisition workforce, GSA, GSA Schedules, GWAC, MAC, MAS, OMB, strategic sourcing

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