The Baroni Center April 16, 2025 Webinar: Acquisition Reform in the New Administration was referenced by the Jason Miller for Federal News Network.
Webinar panelist "Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA and now founder of AlphaTango Strategies, said bringing together so many different people’s views on what is essential to a well-functioning procurement system may be difficult."
“They want to do some deviations and waivers to start with, and then have the rule making process follow. You might have a field testing period, where we have these deviations and waivers out there, and then the traditional rule making process follows,” Thomas said during a recent panel discussion sponsored by the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting at the George Mason University. “We’ll see how that goes. They’re also going to need to engage the Hill at some point. There hasn’t been a lot of engagement with the Hill yet by that team that’s doing the FAR rewrite. I think if you really want to drive change, you’re probably going to need some statutory change, and that’s going to require the folks over in the legislature there to weigh in. So it will be interesting to see how that process plays out.”