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February 5, 2020 By cs

After canceling 2 contracts, DISA tells industry: ‘We need you to deliver’

“We need you to deliver on contracts.” That’s the plea Tony Montemarano recently made to a packed room of vendors.

The executive deputy director of the Defense Information Systems Agency isn’t telling industry anything they don’t already know. But after canceling, or in government speak not picking up the options of two contracts last year, Montemarano felt it was worth pressing that message into the hearts and minds of contractors.

“The biggest issue I have as the acquisition executive as I overlook all the programs, I see failures of development efforts on the part of our managers and the industry supports who are involved. When you bid the contract, we love it for you to be as aggressive as possible. But we need you to deliver,” Montemarano said at the AFCEA DC lunch on Jan. 16 in Arlington, Virginia. “The fact of the matter is we’ve had to terminate more than one contract this year because the vendor hadn’t been developing the product we needed them to develop.”

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-notebook-jason-miller/2020/01/after-canceling-2-contracts-disa-tells-industry-we-need-you-to-deliver/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: contract administration, deliverables, delivery, DISA, option, options, termination

February 17, 2016 By AMK

Army improperly extended contracts, GAO says

The Army improperly used FAR 52.217-8 (Option to Extend Services) to extend several contracts for periods much longer than the six-month maximum allowed by the clause.

GAO-GovernmentAccountabilityOffice-SealThis conclusion comes from a recent GAO study, in which the GAO determined that the Army improperly applied FAR 52.217-8 in three out of five contracts studied by the GAO.  And although the GAO’s report was narrowly focused on a handful of Army contracts, it leads me to wonder whether FAR 52.217-8 is being improperly used on a much broader scale.

Redstone ArsenalThe GAO’s study builds on an October 2015 report, in which the GAO concluded that agencies had improperly used bridge contracts in a number of instances.  In its follow-up study, the GAO analyzed five contracts awarded by the Army Contracting Command’s Redstone Arsenal.

Keep reading this article at: http://smallgovcon.com/statutes-and-regulations/army-improperly-extended-contracts-gao-says/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Army, extension, FAR, GAO, option, Redstone Arsenal

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