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Subject Term: "Competitive advantage"

1 publication with a total of 1 open recommendation including 1 priority recommendation
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Reverse Auctions: Guidance Is Needed to Maximize Competition and Achieve Cost Savings
GAO-14-108, Dec 9, 2013
Director: Mackin, Michele
Phone: (202) 512-4841

1 open recommendations
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Recommendation: To help mitigate confusion about the use of reverse auctions in federal acquisitions, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget should take steps to amend the FAR to address agencies' use of reverse auctions.

Agency: Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget
Status: Open
Priority recommendation

Comments: In providing comments on this report, OMB generally concurred with this recommendation. The FAR Council members issued a timetable in Spring 2020 for the proposed regulatory changes to address the use of reverse auctions in response to GAO's recommendations and 2015 guidance released by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). The notice of proposed rulemaking was planned for August 2020. As of August 10, 2020, the notice of proposed rulemaking had not been published. OMB officials did not provide a revised date when they planned to publish the notice.