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Procurement Chief Vows to Simplify Federal Contracting. ‘Complex’ Federal Contracting no more.
If one word could describe the state of federal contracting, that word would be “complex,” Anne Rung, in her third month as administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
As head of the interagency Strategic Sourcing Leadership Council overseeing such reforms government wide, Rung plans to strengthen the acquisition workforce and prompt agency managers to “use less resources and improve innovation as well as lower the stress level” by reorganizing procurement along the lines of the new broad categories.
“It’s a shift to managing entire categories of acquisition across government and bringing common spending under single managers,” as is done in industry and in the British government,” she said. “You could still have agency-specific projects—one size doesn’t fit all and there’s a difference between buying a hammer and buying information technology services,” Rung added. But in the organizational system her office hopes to roll out soon, each category will be led by an individual who understands what drives cost and the emerging markets.
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