Topic: Daniel Gordon
What happens in Finland doesn't stay there when Daniel Gordon visits.. . His encounters of a musical kind inspire the Plattsburgh State professor...
Noncompetitive contracts declined from fiscal 2005 to fiscal 2009, but contracts receiving only one bid remained steady. The Obama administration's chief procurement policy official agreed with the Government Accountability Office's recommendations to boost the role of the competition advocate and ...
Officials disagree about mandating the use of certain purchasing agreements even for the most ordinary items, such as office supplies.. McCaskill questioned Daniel Gordon, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), about why the administration doesn't simply tell agencies ...
Procurement office will require business cases from agencies that propose enterprisewide contracts. The business cases will require agencies to deal with the anticipated consequences that the proposed contract vehicle would have on the government's ability to leverage its overall buying power ...
Readers identify long-standing issues in trying to rebalance the workforce. Since the early months of 2009, Obama administration officials have been telling contractors, Congress and anyone else who will listen that agencies need to begin weaning themselves off contractors, hiring new staff ...
Newhart's senior-level position is central to the administration addressing the acquisition workforce size and training problems.. PHILADELPHIA - Joanie Newhart, a veteran in the government procurement arena, will lead the Office of Management and Budget's efforts on building up the acquisition ...
Several Obama administration officials told a Senate subcommittee about the need for more government workers, as many agencies rely too much on contractors. As the Obama administration seeks to boost the federal workforce to strike a balance between the number of government ...
Agencies can balance their relationships with contractors with additional resources going to management, says the president's top procurement policy official. "In many cases, overreliance on contractors may be corrected by allocating additional resources to contract management," Daniel Gordon, administrator of the ...
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The government is outsourcing an unprecedented amount of work, and the Obama administration wants more work in federal employees' hands, Gordon says. He was responding to comments from some experts who say the Obama administration's program to take work from contractors ...
