Contracting Practices – Let’s Hear from YOU!

YOU have an opportunity now to provide feedback on best contracting practices.   The Acquisition Advisory Panel is coming down the home stretch, finalizing its report to Congress, and wants to hear from contractors on commercial best practices, performance based contracting and interagency contract vehicles.  Click on www.acqnet.gov/aap, and review the reports, and answer some critical questions that the panel is asking.  You have an opportunity to shape the report – and public policy.  The report will be vehicle for significant positive changes in the acquisition process.  Don’t let this chance pass you by! 

CSA already has spoken – providing testimony to the panel in May 2005 on its Service Contracting Taskforce report. 

The panel was mandated by the 2003 Services Acquisition Reform Act (SARA), authored by Representative Tom Davis, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.  CSA strongly supported SARA, and was involved in its development and passage.  Such an overall review of laws and regulations pertaining to Government contracting has not occurred since the monumental report of the Acquisition Law Advisory Panel, which was the basis for the landmark 1994 Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act.  

Six working groups were set up under the panel’s jurisdiction:  Performance-based contracting; interagency contract vehicles, commercial practices, Federal acquisition workforce; small business; and inherently governmental.  Drafts of the working groups’ reports are posted on the website, along with questions on which the groups are seeking input.  So its up to you – speak now and let the panel hear your views!