Tom Sharpe, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, has announced plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the 17 hallways FAS has rolled out in its Common Acquisition Platform, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Sharpe told the station FAS will collaborate with the Office of Management and Budget to …
Read More »OFPP’s Anne Rung Eyes New Interagency Team to Implement Category Mgmt Strategies
Anne Rung, administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, has said she aims to assemble a team of acquisition specialists to help OFPP implement government-wide category management business practices, GovExec reported Friday. Charles Clark writes Rung told reporters at a Bloomberg Government forum last week that she also envisions …
Read More »Tiffany Hixson: GSA Adopts Category Mgmt for Federal Acquisitions
The General Services Administration has started to adopt a category management business model in an effort to change the way GSA manages federal acquisitions. Tiffany Hixson, a regional commissioner at GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, wrote in a blog post published Monday that GSA will organize its operations around 17 categories of spend. According …
Read More »Anne Rung: New OFPP Guidance Highlights Category Mgmt, Vendor Relationships, Acquisition Talent
Anne Rung, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said that the federal contracting process should focus on facilitating best practices, information sharing and collaboration between agencies to drive cost savings, performance and innovation. Rung wrote Thursday on the Office of Management and Budget blog that the OFPP’s newly released …
Read More »Kevin Youel Page: GSA to Employ ‘Agile’ Methods in Govt-Wide Acquisition Management
The General Services Administration has partnered with other agencies to build a digital portal for category-specific procurements across the government, Federal Times reported Friday. Rutrell Yasin writes GSA’s common acquisition platform will work to help civilian and defense organizations access information on particular classes of product or service offerings. “We …
Read More »Tom Sharpe: Category Mgmt Key to FAS Acquisition Gateway
Tom Sharpe, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, says that the General Services Administration is looking at category management to drive the implementation of a common acquisition platform across government, Federal Times reported Thursday. “It means looking at the dollars we spend each year and putting some structure into it, organizing the …
Read More »Tom Sharpe: GSA Aims to be One-Stop Shop for Federal IT Acquisition Services
The General Services Administration is working to establish a centralized procurement system to accommodate the information technology needs of federal agencies, FCW reported Thursday. Mark Rockwell writes that Tom Sharpe, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said the organization aims to make it easier for agencies to buy IT products …
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