More acquisition reforms coming in defense spending bill

Government contracting desperately needs oversight and reform, especially regarding the contracting workforce and small-business support, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said today.

Moran said he intends to include such changes in the fiscal 2008 Defense appropriations bill. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s Defense Subcommittee put Moran in charge of working on the reforms.

His main concern is that as the number of contracts grows, the number of contracting officers shrinks. “The biggest problem we have now, as far as I am concerned, is…the number of contracting officers is half of what they were six years ago,” Moran said in a speech at the FedSources Federal Outlook Conference. “The number of contracts is twice as much.”

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