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June 10, 2013 By AMK

FAS management pressured officers to award contracts

The Federal Acquisition Service overrode its contracting officers and  pressured them to extend or award schedules contracts based on complaints from  contractors, a June 4 General Services Administration office of inspector  general report  (.pdf) says.

FAS management allowed contractors to circumvent contracting officers when  the contractors disagreed with contracting staff determinations and supported  the contractors’ positions, including by reassigning contracts to different  contracting officers, the report says.

In each reassignment case, the new contracting officer awarded or extended  contracts without properly addressing significant issues identified by previous  contracting officers, the report says. The result, auditors add, is that GSA  signed or extended schedules contracts with inflated pricing or unfavorable  terms.

The report focuses on three large information technology schedule contracts  that represented over $900 million in contract sales in calendar year 2011–a  Oracle services contract that garnered $358.4 million worth of business,  Carahsoft Technology with $432 million worth of sales, and a Deloitte Consulting  contract worth $119.5 million that year.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/fas-management-pressured-officers-award-contracts-based/2013-06-04

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition workforce, contract administration, FAS, GSA, GSA Schedules, MAS, multiple award, negotiation, oversight, pricing, Schedules

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