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IRS Announces Partnership to Improve Procurement Processes


The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of the Chief Procurement Officer has announced a research partnership with Data and Analytic Solutions, a small business located in Fairfax, Virginia. The partnership also includes a group of academic researchers with a goal to use data science to improve IRS procurement operations.


The effort will bring together a multi-disciplinary team comprised of procurement practitioners as well as university professors and students with procurement and machine learning experience. Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence that allows computers to become more accurate at predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed.


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Contractors should be less shy telling government what they think


Tom Temin: Larry, tell us about these incidents when in your words, the government was begging for information from industry.


Larry Allen: Tom, the first incident was a meeting I was in last week where there are a group of contractors on the phone and some people from a federal agency, the people from the federal agency made it very clear at the outset that they weren’t there so much to give information about their procurement, which isn’t even in the draft RFP stage yet. They really wanted input from industry about what they saw in terms of best practices from other contracts, will it be a good way to attract innovative solutions? Even things like what’s a realistic timeline for us to proceed on if we want to add some of these new innovative features to our program? And they got crickets. And I’m listening to the conversation on the phone, and you could tell the government people, Tom, increasingly wanted the input and they weren’t getting it. The contractors were there to get information, not give it. And I thought to myself, this is just the most latest example of a missed opportunity.


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The key issues impacting federal procurement

This week on Off the Shelf, Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration (GSA), gives a comprehensive update on key policy and program initiatives impacting federal procurement.


Koses shares the latest on the implementation of Section 889 and associated considerations/challenges moving forward for both government and industry. He also discusses GSA’s listening sessions focusing on Section 876 and its potential implementation across the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program.


Koses highlights the key issues, opportunities and challenges GSA is assessing as it contemplates the path forward for Section 876 implementation, and shares his priorities for the acquisition workforce and the strategic investments and program reviews designed to enhance training and professional development.


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