Interagency Contracts (Part I): Overview and Recommendations for Reform

Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight

Thursday, February 25, 2010
02:30 PM
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room SD-342

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The hearing examined the rapid proliferation of interagency contracting vehicles in recent years. It reviewed the potential benefits and shortcomings of interagency contracting as well as the potential impact these vehicles may have on competition. The hearing also reviewed the reasons behind the increase in interagency contracting vehicles and whether agencies are creating and using these vehicles responsibly.

The hearing assessed the need for increased oversight and reform, with a second hearing to follow at a future date, asking agency officials to address the issues raised in Part I.

Additional information and materials relating to this hearing are available at http://mccaskill.senate.gov/issues/soco/docs.cfm

Witnesses

Panel 1

• Ralph Nash [view testimony]
  Professor Emeritus
  Frederick J. Lees, E.K. Gubin Professor Emeritus of Government Contracts Law, The George Washington University Law School
• Marshall Doke, Jr. [view testimony]
  Partner
  Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP
• Steven Schooner [view testimony]
  Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law Program
  The George Washington University Law School
• Joshua Schwartz [view testimony]
  E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law; Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law Program; Faculty Chair of the Presidential Merit Scholars Program
  The George Washington University Law School