The flood will come when agencies start losing negotiating leverage and administrative savings. Until then, OMB will continue endorsing smartly managed IDIQs, said Peter Weiss, a senior policy analyst with OMB's Information Policy and Technology Branch. We do not want to stifle the entrepreneurship of contracting officials.
Some competition is good, but the inability to aggregate demand is bad.
I'm not sure there is a best formula and this is a decision that will have to be made in the coming years. This question needs to be addressed at the agency level and we will have that discussion governmentwide. Progress report Speaking at the information technology acquisition stand-down day meeting hosted by the General Services Administration, Weiss reviewed the progress agencies have made in testing the procurement reforms mandated by the 1996 Information Technology Management Reform Act. Raines, in a recent executive memo, directed the Chief Information Officers Council to flag common contracting opportunities and promote cooperation among agency procurement shops. Raines reiterated OMB's authority to designate an executive procurement agent for such particular technologies or programs as GSA maintaining responsibility for the post-FTS 2000 initiative.