Robin Carnahan touted a pair of House bills that would simplify cloud acquisition and add flexibility to procure “best value” tech products and services.
Robin Carnahan, the leader of the General Services Administration, is hopeful that Congress before the end of its term will pass legislation that will make it more streamlined for agencies to pay for cloud computing services and allow the government to take a more flexible “best value” approach to procurement, instead of chasing bids with lowest costs.
Speaking Tuesday at ACT-IAC’s Imagine Nation ELC 2024 conference in Hershey, Pa., Carnahan said GSA is working with Congress “trying to update federal procurement policies” for the digital age.
“So many of these procurement policies were written in a time when contracting officers were literally paging through written-document product catalogs [to do their jobs] — not for the world of today,” Carnahan said.
Congress is beginning to gain some momentum, the GSA administrator said, pointing to a pair of bills that have made some recent progress on the Hill.