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Another GSA Leader Quits

Continuing the turnover at top levels of GSA, Barbara Shelton announced her resignation as acting commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, effective Dec. 21.

Shelton has been managing the agency’s reorganization, including the merger of two major procurement units, the Federal Supply Service and the Federal Technology Service.

Marty Wagner, GSA associate administrator for governmentwide policy, will replace her. Shelton will return to her previous job as administrator of GSA’s Mid-Atlantic region in Philadelphia.

GSA Administrator Stephen Perry brought Shelton to headquarters in February as acting commissioner of the Technology Service after the inspector general found abuse of acquisition rules in the unit. He later put her in charge of the agency’s reorganization.

Perry has since resigned. No new administrator has been named. In addition, the top two officials of the Federal Supply Service and the administrator of GSA’s National Capital Region have resigned in the past few months.

In an appearance before an industry group last month, Shelton said the reorganization was a work in progress that would not be finished for another year.(SAA, 11/18)

To complete the merger of the two services, GSA needs congressional authorization to merge its IT fund and General Supply Fund. The House has passed that legislation, but the Senate has not. .


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