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Industry, Hill Clash Over Contractor Performance Data

Julie Samuel

Friday, July 1st, 2011

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Lawmakers and the defense industry are clashing over the handling of company information in databases the Pentagon refers to when making contract decisions. The use of such data repositories has come under fire this year. The Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy in a January memo called for improving the quantity and quality of company data in them so “source-selection officials have greater confidence in the reliability and relevance of the information there.” The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) highlights these…

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