Millisa Gary, Procurement Ombudsmen, GSA

Can we talk? That's what government and industry have been asking for decades. The answer is yes, and there's plenty of Federal Acquisition Regulation backup fo...

Can we talk? That’s what government and industry have been asking for decades. The answer is yes, and there’s plenty of Federal Acquisition Regulation backup for that. Yet the administration thought it needed to launch the mythbusters initiative to get industry and government talking at the pre-solicitation stage. That was followed by last year’s Open Dialog initiative. How’s it all working? Millisa Gary, the procurement ombudsman at the General Services Administration, joined Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to offer some answers. View our complete coverage of the 2015 ACT-IAC Acquisition Excellence Conference.

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