OMB Watch Submits Comments on Contractor Database

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Yesterday, OMB Watch submitted comments on the proposed Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), the new contractor performance database called for under last year's National Defense Authorization Act. Our comments focused on three areas: data quality and display; database training for contracting officials; and public access to the database. Look for a more in-depth treatment of the proposed database and the comments we supplied in next week's Watcher.

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OMB Watch Testifies before Congress

U.S. Congress

This morning, Director of Federal Fiscal Policy Adam Hughes testified on problems with federal contracting databases before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight. Other witnesses included Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management William Woods of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Trey Hodgkins, Vice President of TechAmerica, a trade group for the technology industry, and Vivek Kundra, the Obama Administration's new Chief Information Officer. The witnesses focused on the problems a disparate and disjointed contracting database system pose to the government, watchdog groups, and contractors, and ways to fix it.

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