The government's procurement spending continues to climb, noncompetitive contracts occur more frequently, and waste, fraud and abuse persist throughout the departments, according to a report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
A number of contracting reforms are taking shape. After months of stops and starts, it appears that a handful of "accountability in contracting" measures will be heading to conference as part of the Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2008.
The growth rates of the federal IT budget and growth among the publicly traded federal IT services firms have been slowing on average since the Iraq war began because funds allocated to the war have not fully covered the costs and usually have been delayed.
Mention the word kickback and visions spring to mind of dealmakers offering Rolexes. But government procurement policy-makers will soon be grappling with much more nuanced market behaviors, courtesy of three whistle-blower cases filed by DOJ.
The Coast Guard's $24 billion Deepwater program remains vulnerable to failures due to uncertainty about whether there is enough trained staff performing oversight, a new GAO report said.
The Professional Services Council has recommended that DOD add three new categories that should not be made available to the public in response to a notice seeking comments on FOIA access to its Federal Document Management System's Central Contractor Registration database.
The chief procurement officer of the Homeland Security Department needs more authority to do proper oversight, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
The Coast Guard is preparing to award a revised contract for its $24 billion Deepwater modernization program starting June 25 with significant alterations.
While he stopped short of calling the federal procurement system broken, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said the system is unhelpful and blamed the former Republican-led Congress for neglecting oversight.
