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August 26, 2015 By AMK

Agencies rely on contractor tool to spot procurement errors

Does federal contract award data need a few good proofreaders?

According to Jeff Sopko, executive vice president of the Alexandria, Va.-based PotomacWave consulting firm, about 20 percent to 30 percent of records in the government’s procurement database contain errors. “They stem from frequent changes in policy and procedures that take time to be implemented in source contract writing, as well as human errors,” he said. “The errors get pushed from the contract writing system to [the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation] with few validation checks.”

FPDS-NG

To address that problem, PotomacWave in 2012 created a software tool called FedDataCheck.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2015/08/agencies-rely-contractor-tool-spot-procurement-errors/119376

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: awards, contract data, errors, FPDS, FPDS-NG', procurement data

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