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GAO finds competition lacking in some DoD contracts

Michele Mackin, the assistant director for Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at GAO, joined In Depth with Francis to discuss a recent report by GAO that found competition in some defense contracts lacking. Bill Woods, the director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues, discussed efforts to create a streamlined system for federal contracting data.

Tags: GAO , contracting , acquisition , In Depth , Francis Rose , Michele Mackin , Bill Woods , FedBizOpps , DoD

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Troubled federal procurement data systems to get facelift

GSA will award a contract to create a new enterprise architecture by the end of October. The agency's goal is to consolidate eight disparate systems to make it easier to access procurement data. The current systems are not interoperable and plagued with long-standing problems.

Tags: contracting , Vivek Kundra , Sen. Claire McCaskill , Sen. Robert Bennett , William Woods , OMB , OFPP , GAO , GSA , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , AOCS , PPIRS , Excluded Parties List System

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How to Win Business From the Government

James J. Baker
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September 21st, 2009

Tags: contracting , Selling to the Government , federal budget , IT budget , 300A , OSDBU , USASpending.gov

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