GSA IG critiques TDR program

      The General Services Administration’s ambitious pilot program to collect and analyze sales and pricing data for Schedules contracts is coming under fire from the GSA’s Office of Inspector General.

      The OIG recently performed an audit of the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) pilot and concluded that in its current form it will not enable GSA to evaluate whether TDR “is improving the value of the Multiple-Award Schedules Program,” the inspector general wrote.

      The July 25 audit alleged that the TDR pilot’s objectives are poorly defined, metrics lack performance targets, and that “a majority of the metrics rely on data that is not available for use in, or evaluation of, the pilot.”

      The auditors recommended that the Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner and GSA’s Senior Procurement Executive revise the TDR pilot objectives to include specific objectives and benchmarks for performance.

      GSA officials responded that before metrics and benchmarks can be established, it is necessary to have a baseline.

      “Once the baseline is established, then the target can be set,” wrote Alan Thomas Jr., commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, and Jessica Salmoiraghi, associate administrator for the Office of Governmentwide Policy, wrote in response to the audit.

      The OIG also said GSA must ensure that TDR is available, accurate and reliable. GSA officials agreed with that recommendation.

More Information: GSA OIG Report: https://bit.ly/2OOMGfC

FY2019 CR expected

GSA IG critiques TDR program

GSA: Reverse auctions stop

Suspended vendors retain DOD awards

Column: SubNet - Where’s the Beef?

Washington Insider: