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Procurement policy-makers locked inside the Office of Management and Budget say they need to hear more from workers stationed on the front lines of government acquisition.
OMB officials will re-establish a "Frontline Forum" set to meet twice a year with "contracting officers, not the stuffed shirts from the chief acquisition council," said David Safavian, administrator of OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
The forum was established when Steve Kelman led OFPP during the Clinton administration. "We need to understand how the systems work down in the field," Safavian said earlier this month during the Federal Acquisition Conference and Exposition in Washington, D.C.
The time is ripe for...