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February 14, 2014 By AMK

GSA overhaul of delivery system to save $500 million

The General Services Administration is overhauling the way it delivers goods and supplies to agencies, according to a Jan. 30 blog post by Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Tom Sharpe.

The agency will no longer own and operate large warehouses to store goods before they ship and will instead partner with private companies to have the items sent directly to agencies.

Sharpe said the move would simplify the acquisition process and have $500 million over the next five years. The agency operates warehouses across the country and retail operations around the world.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20140131/ACQ01/301310006/GSA-overhaul-delivery-system-save-500-million

October 4, 2013 By AMK

VA awards $275 million contract to track supplies at hospitals

The Veterans Affairs Department awarded Shipcom Wireless of Houston a four-year contract with a maximum value of $275 million to help manage the supply chain in its 152 hospitals at the “point of use” — wards, operating or emergency rooms.

VA’s current supply chain system “is outdated, underutilized and often accomplished manually,” said the department, which wanted to “build a world class advanced supply chain to serve as a benchmark for the overall healthcare logistics industry.”

VA wanted to acquire a point-of-use system that uses automated supply stations to streamline the supply chain for timely delivery of required supplies to the point where those supplies are consumed throughout a hospital.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/health/2013/09/va-awards-275-million-contract-track-supplies-hospitals/70774/?oref=nextgov_defense

February 12, 2013 By AMK

DoD AT&L chief: sequestration “unconscionable”; endorses performance based logistics

“It is utterly unconscionable — utterly unconscionable — that Congress will allow sequestration to go on.”

Those are the words of Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s head of acquisition, speaking to an audience of several hundred New York financial types. Kendall is just back from a trip to Afghanistan and he had heard from soldiers there who worried they would be furloughed if sequestration goes through. They won’t be — military personnel salaries are exempted from sequestration, so only federal civilians will be affected — but worry and uncertainty can weaken any organization, and Kendall was visibly angry as he spoke.

But sequestration wasn’t the only issue on Kendall’s agenda at yesterday’s conference on the aerospace and defense sector put on by the Cowen Group.

Kendall told the audience of several hundred Wall Street financiers that he planned to push for more competitive prototyping, more Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contracts, and more of the wide array of acquisition reforms the Pentagon groups under the rubric Better Buying Power 2.

Keep reading this article at: http://defense.aol.com/2013/02/07/atl-frank-kendall-sequestration-unconscionable-endorses-pbls/?icid=related1

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