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August 15, 2016 By AMK

Certification process for CORs falls short within GSA

Two years after it offered recommendations to strengthen the workforce charged with overseeing technical aspects of contracts, the General Services Administration’s Inspector General (IG) said the agency has still not fully complied.

GSA OIGAs part of its recommendations to correct the problem, the OIG said that GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) should put in controls to ensure contracting officer representatives (CORs) were registered in the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) Tracking Application System and develop guidance to ensure the certification was consistently tracked.

The Aug. 3, 2016 report said that FAS had yet to require its regional offices complete spreadsheets detailing certification information.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/acquisition/contracts/2016/08/04/fas-still-hasnt-applied-contract-officer-improvements-oig-says/88067424/

Read the OIG’s report here: https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/audit-reports/A160081_1.pdf

 

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition training, acquisition workforce, certification, contracting officer's representatives, COR, FAI, FAITAS, GSA, IG, OIG

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