Friday Flash - Friday Flash 03.24.17
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Last week’s FAR & Beyond blog, which focused on the President’s Executive Order, “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch,” generated significant interest and positive feedback from across the procurement community. Thank you to the loyal readers of FAR & Beyond! The federal procurement system is ubiquitous. Through the federal procurement system, commercial services, products,
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In 2010, the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), in the name of “Demand Management,” closed Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 75 – Office Products and Supplies (Schedule 75) to new offers. Under FAS’s Demand Management strategy, Schedule 75 was closed because of the high number of contractors and corresponding program management costs, which effectively resulted in supplier
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In our current era of shrinking budgets, the Federal government often touts the effectiveness of its procurement processes by looking at the savings that its programs have delivered to the taxpayer. For instance, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) announced earlier this year that Category Management has saved the government more than $2 billion.
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