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December 24, 2015 By AMK

Six ways feds can improve IT acquisition and access

A group of federal contracting advocates teamed up to analyze how to improve the government acquisition process, particularly around government/contractor relations.

PSCThe team — comprised of the Professional Services Council (PSC), the Technology Councils of North America, the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the California Technology Council (CTC) — came up with six “guiding principles” that will make it easier for government to buy IT and help new and smaller companies break into federal contracting.

Download: Delivering Results: A Framework for Federal Government Technology Access and Acquisition

“Our message is simple: Government must remove the high hurdles to participation and innovation for all so that firms from across the nation can compete on a level playing field,” said Dave Wennergren, PSC executive vice president. “That we have come together around this set of overarching principles sends a strong signal that the government is constrained by how they ask for technology solutions, not who they ask.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/it/2015/12/10/delivering-results-framework/77095316/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition planning, acquisition reform, acquisition strategy, acquisition workforce, competition, innovation, IT, procurement reform, PSC, technology, technology development

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