Return to Article: Managers should view contractors as partners, report says
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The viewing of contractors as partners must be tendered with the statement: "Let the buyer beware." The reason is that the contractors all work for profit and to benefit their firms.
Contract specialists let the contractors get away with slipshod work and let the contractors off with a very slight touch on the wrist. For example, both space shuttle disasters happened because of misuses by contractors and buddy managers. They played with people's lives.
I have worked in this area for many years and I have always maintained my integrity. Contract specialists should not allow contractors any leeway to escape the requirements specified in their agreement. You cannot be buddy, buddy with contractors - job integrity comes first.
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As long as we don't visit their hunting lodges, or ride in their rental cars, or eat in their cafeterias.
We've had to cease having our management assistants help set up protocol events, and I've noticed that the national transportation subsidy program (vanpool reimbursement) doesn't apply to rank and file contract employees.
The IG just forced the "arms length" back into our government-contractor relationship.
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Good article. I have been on the government side, and am now on the contractor side. I can tell you the same is true in construction, not just Information Technology. And presumably, with all outsourced contracts. We spend a lot of time, managing our relationship with the Air Force. And they do the same with us. There are naturally bumps along the way, but we are true partners, I think, in accomplishing the Air Force REDHORSE mission of building base infrastructure in the Middle East.
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