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October 25, 2012 By AMK

OFPP memo on CAOs addresses weaknesses

Joe Jordan, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, issued a memo Oct. 18 to clarify roles of the chief acquisition officer, but an expert said that it offers little new.

Jordan issued the memo as a follow-up to a Government Accountability Office report from July. GAO found many departments do not have documents defining the CAO’s duties. As a result they may lack a strong basis for more permanently including the CAO within their organizational leadership structure, GAO concluded. In addition, the amount of detail on an agency’s CAO’s authorities and responsibilities varies greatly based on the agency’s Federal Acquisition Regulation supplement and other policy documentation.

Keep reading this article at: http://fcw.com/articles/2012/10/22/jordan-cao-memo.aspx 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition training, acquisition workforce, buying smarter, CAO, GAO, OFPP, performance, responsibility, small business, SPE

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