Advocacy
Advocating for the Contract Management CommunityNCMA represents the contract management community—its members, organizations and practices—to the people and institutions that matter. As part of our advocacy efforts, we provide information to our members on issues, trends, legislation, and regulations that will affect them and their organizations, and information to legislators, regulators, employers, the press, and the public to help them understand the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing the contract management community. Advocacy is part of NCMA′s core mission and it is provided as part of your basic membership benefits. NCMA does not lobby—we don′t propose specific legislation per se, but we do inform and educate the people that make the rules under which our members operate. We encourage members to engage in our advocacy program by staying informed and providing feedback through this Web site on issues and actions as they occur. To contribute to the discussion on an item, you must be logged in to the NCMA website. To submit a comment directly to the NCMA Professionalism Advocacy Committee, send an e-mail to advocacy@ncmahq.org.
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Position Papers
NCMA Celebrates Contract Management Week! The NCMA Board of Directors has declared the week of July 18 to 24, 2010, as Contract Management Week in recognition and honor of the thousands of contracting and procurement professionals within government and industry. Contract Management Week, held in conjunction with the National Contract Management Association's World Congress 2010 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, will be a time dedicated to continued professional development, organizational focus, and personal recognition, for the practice and practitioners of contract management.Read the full text. Agencies Should Not Fear Talking to ContractorsBy Steve Kelman February 17, 2010 20 years ago, the accepted wisdom was that informal communication between government and contractors before a request for proposals was issued was dangerous, fraught with risks of favoritism and suitable only in highly regulated meetings contractors attended en masse for the opportunity to ask questions, which nobody ever did for fear of revealing information competitors could use. During the 1990s, the dominant view changed. An important reason to work with contractors in the first place is the fact that they have knowledge the government doesn't. When government doesn't take advantage of that knowledge before issuing an RFP, it loses. Read the full text. Open Letter to Government Employees: Becoming Engaged with NCMA Enhances Professionalism and Mission SuccessNovember 7, 2009 For over 50 years, NCMA has led and represented the contracting profession. The association currently has over 19,000 members and has operating chapters across the United States and in more than 13 countries. However, NCMA's biggest value is in the day-to-day practice of contract management. NCMA provides a collection of neutral networks or communities, at the local and national level, where contract management professionals from all types of government and industry agencies and organizations can come together with a common goal: To enhance their professional expertise in a nonadversarial environment, thus enabling them to more effectively accomplish the mission of their organizations. Read the full text.
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Legislation and Regulation
Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act of 2009 - 12/24/2009
A bill to improve the acquisition workforce through the establishment of an acquisition management fellows program.
Federal Acquisition Institute Improvement Act of 2009 - 12/24/2009
A bill to improve the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) enhancing its role in establishing government-wide acquisition training and ecrtification requirements and standards.
GSAR Case 2006-G510, Rewrite of GSAR Part 504, Administrative Matters - 10/21/2008
GSA is proposing to amend the General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to revise the language regarding requirements for administrative matters.
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