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DOD's Lee on "get it right:" "it means think.".(Department of Defense)(General Services Administration)
Set-Aside Alert, July, 2004
In tandem with GSA's "Get It Right" initiative, the Defense Department is preparing new rules governing its use of GSA schedules and other multiple award contracts.
Deidre Lee, director of defense procurement and acquisition policy, said the department is not discouraging the use of those streamlined procurement vehicles, but is taking steps to ensure that they are used properly. "That means competition, in scope, and it's going to take more than a day," she told contractors at a conference sponsored by Input in Falls Church, VA, July 14.
Lee pointed to the well-publicized contract for CACI to provide interrogators in Iraq, a procurement that took a circuitous route through the system. "I don't know how an Army requirement was sent to the Department...
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