Vernon Edwards’s new piece in The Nash & Cibinic Report examines whether the recent spate of government contracting reforms will improve anything or create more chaos. He notes that the recent executive order consolidating the procurement of common goods with GSA is a throwback to the 1940s notion of centralized procurement embodied by the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. He is also skeptical about OMB’s rumored rewrite of the FAR, wondering whether a FAR 2.0 will result in a more efficient acquisitions process. An addendum to the article from Ralph Nash himself is more blunt. Nash says these two policies—consolidated procurement, FAR 2.0—”are bad policies that will seriously damage the procurement system.”
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