OMB calls for better communication with vendors to bust contracting myths
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a lengthy memorandum on Feb. 2, 2011 outlining 10 myths commonly-believed by businesses about government contracting. The myths were compiled as a...
View ArticleOFPP zeroes in on acquisition workforce
With much of the focus on contracting reform aimed at communication between government and industry, some government officials want to make sure front-line contracting feds aren’t overlooked. Dan...
View ArticleOFPP’s Gordon reflects on mythbusters, acquisition workforce
The investment in the acquisition workforce and the launch of the mythbusters campaign were two of the major initiatives by Dan Gordon, the outgoing head of procurement in the federal government....
View ArticleAcquisition: Bridging the communication gaps
Is progress being made in bridging the gap between the contracting community and the program community? Is the Office of Management and Budget’s Mythbusters campaign having an impact on the...
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More mythbusting needed around industry-government communications
The continued inability of agencies to provide truly educational debriefings to contractors when they lose out on a contract is one of the biggest problems with federal procurement. Time and again,...
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Breaking the ‘institutional density’ of industry, government communications
Two mythbusters memos from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP); the reestablishment of the Frontline Forum for contracting officers; a host of Web and in-person educational sessions over...
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Why procurement officials shouldn’t fear debriefings
The White House has a strong message for the government’s buying officials: Talk to the companies that bid on a contract about why they did or didn’t win the award. The Office of Management and...
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4 agencies try to reverse years of industry-government communication tartar
Three memos trying to bust contracting myths weren’t enough. Neither was a proposed rule in the Federal Acquisition Regulations. But maybe, just maybe, the Homeland Security Department has found a...
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How DHS is thawing the industry-government deep freeze
The thaw in industry-government collaboration for acquisitions has yet to fully materialize. Even after more than six years since the first mythbusters memo from the Office of Federal Procurement...
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