A key to implementing the vision is to include the private sector, the report said. The push for government standards seems to die hard. The focus has been on DOD, the government's largest buyer, which is widely regarded as the leader for a governmentwide EC initiative. DOD has been pushing its Central Contractor Registration database. CCR is being watched as a possible avenue to a single database of government suppliers.
Industry is still concerned about government-only mandates.
Those concerns are illustrated by the lackluster number of CCR registrations that recently forced DOD to extend the deadline for CCR sign-ups to June 1. The future of CCR will likely rest in the hands of Deidre A. Lee, who is expected to be approved as administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. In the long list of issues Lee faces when she takes over her new post, EC, which promises a big payoff, will undoubtedly be near the top. All rights reserved.