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VA falling short on IT approvals, GAO saysThe VA is buying IT without documentation of the required approvals from its CIO, according to a new report from the GAO. The CIO approvals are required under the FITARA law. GAO reviewed 11,644 VA contract actions for IT from 2018 to 2021 and found 4,513 (39%) to lack evidence of CIO approvals. An in-depth review of 26 IT contract actions confirmed that only 12 had documentation by the appropriate agency officials, GAO said. GAO advised VA to implement automated controls to ensure CIO review of IT procurements, and VA agreed.
Read more: House GOP’ers call for fed’l outsourcing dataThree Republican lawmakers from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are calling on OMB to release clearer and more easily comprehensible federal workforce data to facilitate potential outsourcing of certain types of work to contractors. Federal agencies are required to file an annual inventory of non-inherently governmental activities and positions under the FAIR Act of 1998. However, recent inventories have been posted online “in formats that are barely decipherable,” Reps. Pete Sessions, R-TX; Nancy Mace, R-SC; and Lisa McClain, R-MI; all subcommittee chairs, claimed in a letter to OMB.
Read more at: IT & Professional Services spending forecastBloomberg Government is anticipating a 2.5% increase in the federal government’s IT contract spending for fiscal 2023, resulting in a record $78 billion in such spending this year. Bloomberg also projects federal professional services contract spending to decline 1.8% compared to fiscal 2022, resulting in $105 billion in awards by year’s end. The two categories represent 26% of all non-classified federal buying, according to a summary of the data by Allen Federal Partners.
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