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August 16, 2019 By AMK

The 4 cornerstones of government acquisition reform

The General Services Administration’s strategy for improving the federal marketplace in the coming years will rely on approximately 25 reforms, according to agency officials, but a handful of those will serve as the central points to shore up the rest of the strategy.

“We are trying to simplify the buying and selling process,” said Alan Thomas, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, at a July 24 Association for Federal Information Resources Management event.

According to Thomas, four of those simplification initiatives will serve as cornerstones, meaning that they are central to and tied in with the success of the other “stones” around them:

  1. Development of an enterprisewide contract writing system.
  2. Managing catalog data.
  3. Consolidating the Multiple Award Schedule program.
  4. Progressing on a commercial platform initiative.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.federaltimes.com/acquisition/2019/07/24/government-acquisition-reform-to-rely-on-4-cornerstones/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, commercial contract, consolidated contracts, contract consolidation, contract writing system, GSA Schedules, MAS, procurement reform

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