Jan 22, 2008

The Office of Management and Budget is developing a plan to execute the acquisition reforms recommended last year by a congressionally chartered panel, the Government Accountability Office says.

OMB is putting many of the Acquisition Advisory Panel’s 89 recommendations into practice, but does not have a plan with milestones, the GAO said in a report released Jan. 22.

“Without an overall strategy or plan, it is unclear how [OMB] will gauge the success and shortcomings in how the panel recommendations improve acquisitions,” GAO wrote.

Many of the panel’s recommendations mirror past GAO recommendations for acquisition reform. They include:

• More contracting competition.
• Quality assurance plans and measurable performance requirements to improve performance-based contracting.
• Better management for interagency contracting.
More accurate data to support acquisition analyses.

OMB plans to rely on senior procurement executives and chief acquisition officers within federal agencies to enact the recommendations.

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