Return to Article: New GSA chief promises 'actions, not words'
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Thirty days to award a schedule contract???? Was she trying to be funny? I'm dying over here! GSA-wide the average time to award a schedule contract is approximately 80-90 days. Over the last few years that number has dropped three to five days per year at the most. Is she going to automate the award process? This concept is quite interesting. The insiders know that the latest quality initiative, "Get It Right," choked the life out of our process to get awards made quickly. Those same insiders know that it wasn't the award process that caused the agency's problems, but rather how the schedule contracts were being used.
Administrator Doan, let's focus on finding ways to get more sales to the vendors already on schedule.
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Notwithstanding the previous poster's reservations about the new GSA chief's concern with rules and regulations, I say, bring on the humanities major! She can't be any worse than the lackluster, ineffective, career bureaucrats that GSA has operated under in the past. A little entrepreneurial spirit and energy is the kind of motivation the agency needs to right itself and progress. Besides, I understand she has an able procurement "fixer" to hammer out a new, integrated procurement system. Sounds like a winning combination to me!
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She needs to concentrate more on ensuring the procurements are done correctly and ethically, rather than on pacifying prospective vendors that encourage using their GSA schedules to circumvent laws and regulations.
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