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Article: Task Force Assails D.C. Procurement System
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- The Washington Post
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- February 15, 1996
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The D.C. government buys $1 billion worth of goods and services
annually with only minimal adherence to procurement laws, often
allowing individual departments to follow their own ill-defined
procurement rules and regulations, a private-sector task force
reported yesterday.
The task force, organized by the Greater Washington Board of
Trade and the Washington Council of Agencies, also found that city
managers rely far too frequently on noncompetitive sole-source and
emergency contracts because of the D.C. government's lax management
culture.
The Department of Administrative Services has never issued a
procurement manual as required by the D.C. Procurement Practices
Act, the task force ...