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July 28, 2017 By AMK

Commentary: Contract management’s new certainty of uncertainty

As anyone involved in contracting with the federal government is already well aware, this is the age of complete uncertainty.

What are the government’s requirements? What are its priorities? What is its budget? When will it receive its funding? When will solicitations be issued? When will contract awards be made? Once contract awards are completed, will they last? Will the program survive? What will be the effect on existing contracts of changes in budget priorities, funding reallocations, funding stoppages, funding shortages, government shutdowns, stop-gap funding, the administration’s changing or still unknown goals and intent, etc.?

The only sure “knowns” in contracting today are the multitudinous “unknowns.” The once weakly supported notion of wider use of multi-year funding — to provide increased program stability, efficiencies and contract savings — is a distant memory. Such uncertainty was the subject of a recent message to Congress by the Secretary of Defense.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/contract-managements-new-certainty-of-uncertainty-commentary

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, acquisition workforce, agile, contract administration, contract funding, contract management, discount, government shutdown, NCMA, procurement reform, uncertainty

August 19, 2015 By AMK

GAO: Agencies should be seeking deeper discounts on FSS contracts

Agencies aren’t consistently seeking discounts when procuring goods and services off the Federal Supply Schedules, says a Government Accountability Office report released Aug. 10.

GSA Schedule Contract logoThe Federal Supply Schedules, or FSS, program allows agencies to buy commercial products and services from a list of approved vendors at discounted prices.

According to the General Services Administration, agencies placed more than $33 billion worth of orders through the FSS program in fiscal year 2014. The FSS portion of total federal contract spending represents about 6 percent of contract spending governmentwide, the report says.

That said, agencies should be pushing for discounts even further than those provided by the base FSS prices, GAO says.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/gao-agencies-should-be-seeking-deeper-discounts-fss-contracts/2015-08-13

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: discount, FSS, GAO, GSA, GSA Schedule, GSA Schedules, price reduction, pricing

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