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By Kimberly Palmer kpalmer@govexec.com March 14, 2005
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    My banker's favorite "acquisition reform" is called Share-in-Savings (SIS). He tells me that the contractors who have accounts at his bank are expecting huge increases in their accounts after they get SIS work.

    GovExec.com reader Posted March 17, 2005 6:19 PM
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    I feel bad to have missed Monday's Earned Value Management conference. Could somebody send me the totebag or mug or whatever they handed out? My wife likes to collect that stuff. We have totebags with management slogans all over the basement. My dog sleeps on one exclaiming "Competitive Sourcing: The Road to Economy and Efficiency." I always thought it smelled a little but he seems to like it.

    Ed the Fed Posted March 15, 2005 10:46 PM
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    OMB is allowing 60 days for comments regarding their intent to require contract costs be tracked and measured, and yet only 30 days are allowed for commenting on the NSPS proposal. What's wrong with this picture?

    GovExec.com reader Posted March 15, 2005 11:58 AM
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    Hmm. Do agencies need contract support to handle the "Earned Value Management" Process? Methinks so. Could this be why OMB is selling this oh-so-important "reform"?

    Remember Ed's Golden Rule: All Contracting "reforms" are proposed to help out Uncle Lockheed, Aunt Boeing, Cousin Raytheon, Grandpa AT&T, Grandma SRI International...

    Ed the Fed Posted March 15, 2005 12:42 AM
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    Earned value management -- another acquisition reform scam, just like "spend management", "performance-based service contracting", and "strategic sourcing". These acquisiton reformers never quit coming up with new terms for the same old nonsense. What do they do? Sit around all day in a room coming up with monikers?

    GovExec.com reader Posted March 14, 2005 5:44 PM

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