Steve Kelman: the good and bad of OMB’s hardware mandate

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Steve Kelman: the good and bad of OMB’s hardware mandate

The Office of Management and Budget will require your agency to buy computer hardware through one of three governmentwide vehicles soon — or explain why you s...

Francis Rose

October 21, 2015 12:49 pm

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Steve Kelman, former administrator of federal procurement policy, professor of public management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

The Office of Management and Budget will require your agency to buy computer hardware through one of three governmentwide vehicles soon — or explain why you shouldn't. That's after OMB found agencies spent anywhere from $450 to $1,300 to buy computers with the same specifications. Steve Kelman is professor of public management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and former administrator of federal procurement policy. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose there are some good things and bad things about OMB's mandate.