Call to change how agencies rate contractor performance rises to new level
Source: federalnewsnetwork.com
Let’s start out with this basic truism: No one likes the current approach to rating contractor performance.
Neither the agency contracting officers nor program managers, and not the vendors who sometimes wait three to six months after the contract is complete to get a mostly meaningless “satisfactory” rating.
The data itself lacks value and transparency.
And, to be honest, it seems to have become another checklist activity for many agencies.
A new survey by GovConRx and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy shows, once again, just how little value there is in the current approach to contractor performance assessment ratings (CPARs).
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