Is the federal government’s interest sorely at risk due to an insufficient number of trained procurement officers?  A federal advisory panel is working on that very issue.

Procurement has changed enormously over the past three decades.  In IRS in the 1970’s, the procurement office – well it couldn’t really be called an ‘office’ – was merely one section of many within the Facilities Management Division.  However, by the 1990’s, this ‘office’ came into its own, growing into an Assistant Commissioner organization (which is akin to a Directorate level, for our readers who work in the defense and intelligence worlds).

For more information about this important issue, please read Jenny Mandel’s article from Government Executive [7/14/06] here.

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