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Business/Financial

Contractors Having To Work Harder To Get Federal Service Contracts, CSIS Study Shows

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, November 28th, 2011

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Federal spending on a wide range of services has until lately steadily risen the past decade but that growth has been outpaced by the number of separate contract actions undertaken to secure those services, meaning contractors are having to work harder to obtain a share of the federal service dollars, according to a new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). “If you’re looking at it from the industry perspective, your average contract action has really decreased,”…

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