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(*This article was published and released on LinkedIn October 10, 2025) On a   recent story-hour   with some of the original Architects of Inefficiency, a claim was made and perpetuated along the following lines ‘ The reason contract bloat and redundancy exist is in government contacting is OMB’s fault.  It was the acting positions that resulted in ineffective management to control contract proliferation by other agencies and keeping NASA and NIH in check. ’   With any good c

(This article was published on LinkedIn October 15, 2025.) Sometimes the unexpected obviousness of something is hard to see.  I did a little research answering the question “What role does the Government-wide Schedule’s-based BPA play in the federal marketplace?”  In a previous piece I show that the explosion of Government-wide Schedule’s-based BPAs exploded after GSA was unsuccessful at closing NASA’s SEWP program in 2007.  It was shortly thereafter that I began working at t

(*This article was published and released on LinkedIn October 13, 2025.) As the calls for contract consolidation continue, we hear the Architects of Inefficiency and their Coalition of Self-Interests continually tease how no other agency other than GSA should be responsible for government-wide acquisitions.  These interests have used an administrative initiative to advance their special interest, none of which have to do with efficiency or effectiveness, but stereotypical of

(*This article was published on LinkedIn October 6, 2025.) There is a tradition in NASA’s SEWP program that the team brings in and out the Fiscal New Year together as team members are approving technology refreshes and processing orders up 12:00am EST.  What this means is that by morning on October 1st the program knows exactly what has occurred through its vehicle.  I make the following comparisons annually, so I can anticipate what we will see from the other vehicles once F