Author Archive
Bob Deller
Digital Government
Bob Deller: Controlling performance
Responsibility for performance must go deeper than administering programs.
Digital Government
Online Extra: Mission Control -- Program Assessment Rating Tool can be a matter of common sense
The Program Assessment Rating Tool is supposed to evaluate a program's purpose and design, planning, management, and results and accountability to determine its overall effectiveness. It could work better.
Infrastructure
WEB EXTRA: Mission Control -- Individuals aren't the only users of government services
Important performance improvement imperatives are now linked to the federal budget process.<br>
Digital Government
Mission Control: Imagine - an agency getting a Baldrige
What if the performance plan for every federal manager contained a requirement that an organization or program be terminated when its mission was accomplished?
Digital Government
It should not matter if you buy through EDI: Rules are rules
For more than two years, the government has been gearing up for electronic commerce. The administration is a strong EC supporter, as reflected in the National Performance Review. In response to White House prodding, the General Services Administration has implemented a policy for progressive growth toward a paperless procurement system.
Digital Government
For now, GSBCA still has jurisdiction over ADP bid protests
Agency attempts to challenge the jurisdiction of the General Services Administration's Board of Contract Appeals are premature. Agencies must abide the board's authority under the Brooks Act a bit longer. The Defense Commissary Agency and the National Library of Medicine both disputed the board's authority and asked it to set aside recent protests. The agencies made their cases on other grounds, but neither justified their arguments that the board lacked jurisdiction.
Digital Government
One delivery order spawns a convoluted GSBCA protest ordeal
Sometimes a simple action can lead to a protest replete with complex legal twists and turns. The following saga involves a pair of protests at the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals. It all began last fall, when the Defense Information Systems Agency issued a delivery order for a mainframe it wanted to buy through an existing, 3-year-old contract. The circumstances of the contract were complicated by a settlement that resulted from a protest
