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June 3, 2015 By AMK

Lawmakers aim to streamline Homeland Security purchasing

The third-largest federal agency needs to streamline its acquisition process and address continuing reports of waste, a bipartisan group of House members said Monday.

In introducing a bill (H.R. 2199) to step up oversight and strengthen the ability of top procurement officials to re-work contracts, leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee expressed impatience with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s ongoing “Unity of Effort” initiative. They also called for “clarity” for U.S. businesses that contract with DHS.

“Congressional watchdogs continue to find failures in how DHS spends billions of taxpayer dollars on its major acquisition purchases,” said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., chairman of the Oversight and Management Efficiency Subcommittee. “Frontline operators securing our borders, defending our shores, and protecting our aviation systems should not wait years longer than promised for systems that don’t perform as intended.”

An Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) allows a Program Manager (PM) to track program goals against a formal baseline. This tracking will alert the PM to any potential problems that might arise and to perform corrective actions to keep a program within its goals. Proposed legislation would require every major acquisition program within the Dept. of Homeland Security to have an approved APB document.
An Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) allows a Program Manager (PM) to track program goals against a formal baseline. This tracking will alert the PM to any potential problems that might arise and to perform corrective actions to keep a program within its goals. Proposed legislation would require every major acquisition program within the Dept. of Homeland Security to have an approved APB document.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2015/05/lawmakers-aim-streamline-homeland-security-purchasing/111892/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Acquisition Program Baseline, acquisition reform, APB, DHS, GAO, procurement reform, regulatory reform, waste

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