With no clear end in sight, impacted agencies have a new deadline to contend with: Jan. 20, the 30th day of the partial government shutdown.
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The Defense Department lost out on $28 billion at the end of fiscal 2018 because it let authority to spend the funds expire, according to a report by its inspector general on results of the Pentagon’s first-ever audit.
Source: Pentagon Whiffed on Spending $28 Billion as Time Ran Out – Federal News Network
The U.S. Department of Defense has 150 active “other transaction” agreements, or OTAs, on its books, which combined have generated $5.8 billion in spending to date, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis.
Source: A Closer Look at the Pentagon’s $2 Billion a Year OTA Pipeline
As the partial government shutdown drags on past 30 days, agencies are scrambling to find the answers to questions they’ve never had to address before.
This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author.
This week, the Section 809 Panel released its much-anticipated Volume III Report to Congress, which includes recommendations for streamlining the Department of Defense’s (DoD) acquisition system. Previously, the Panel had issued its Volume I Report in January 2018, and its Volume II Report in June 2018. The Coalition would like to recognize the Section 809 Panel for its significant sacrifice and effort in producing each of these reports over the past two years. Cumulatively, these three reports provide 93 acquisition reform recommendations that are dissected across more than 2,000 pages of analysis, all completed in an effort to improve the department’s acquisition system.
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Contract spending has grown by almost 6 percent per year over the past five years as federal agencies relied increasingly on governmentwide contract vehicles and simplified acquisition procedures. Bloomberg Government has identified five important spending trends that developed from fiscal 2014 through 2018.
Source: Federal Contract Spending Trends: Five Years in Five Charts – Federal News Network
Federal News Network details five of the Section 809 panel’s third and final set of recommendations that readers should pay close attention to over the next year.
It’s been three years since Congress voted to give the Defense Department new, streamlined acquisition authorities. But the Navy says it’s starting to take advantage of them in a big way, including by pushing most of its top-priority weapons systems into a new, accelerated process.
Source: Navy will use new legal authorities to speed up top acquisition priorities
The independent commission Congress chartered to hunt for methods to streamline the Defense acquisition system is recommending dramatic changes to the ways in which the Pentagon interacts with industry, particularly when it comes to products and services that are already sold in the commercial sector.
Source: Section 809 panel’s final report prescribes changes to DoD buying