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HASC Eyes Changes To Contract Source Selections

Julie Samuel

Friday, June 7th, 2013

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The House will consider legislation next week that could impact the way defense contracts are awarded. In the wee hours of the morning on Thursday the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) passed an amendment to the fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill that requires that cost be given at least equal importance to technical and other criteria in source selection for defense contracts. The legislative text was crafted by Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.), who kept a close eye on defense-contracting…

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