Regulations issued pursuant to the 1994 Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act are designed to encourage commercial entities to compete for public contracts

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The 1994 FASA seeks to make broad changes to federal government acquisition procedures, especially the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA), but its success depends on risk-averse bureaucrats who resisted its predecessors. FASA is a rare bipartisan effort to broaden the exemptions from TINA and lower the cost of doing business with the government, especially for those businesses whose sales are mainly to other purchasers. It gives purchasing officials more discretion, though its commercial item exception may prove meaningless.

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New FASA contracting method offers agencies unprecedented power; the use of multiple-award-task-order contracts may leave low bidders no remedy

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The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (FASA) changes federal agency procurement of goods and services. The Act provides for multiple-award task-order contracts and forbids protests against task order issuance. Thus, contractors without task orders do not have recourse. This provision of FASA invites inefficiency and abuse in the government procurement system and violates the principle that competition for public contracts benefits the government.

Administrative agencies, Government agencies

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When the Information Technology Reform Act becomes effective next month, the United States must use private-sector practices to procure new technology

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The Information Technology Reform Act (ITMRA) mandates an overhaul of the government's system for purchasing information technology, aiming to eliminate bureaucratic delay and inefficiency by making that system more like the private sector. The law reduces the General Service Administration's (GSA) central role in the federal procurement of information technology. Executive agencies are now free of GSA oversight when they acquire such technology.

Purchasing, Information technology, Defense contracts

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