Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne.

Procurement administrative lead time is a nice phrase for how bureaucratically long it takes from when the time an agency decides it might need to buy something, to when it awards a contract. It even has its own acronym: PALT. And PALT is often not paltry. Now the Office of Federal Procurement Policy has issued a proposed definition of PALT as a step towards squeezing it down. For the industry’s take, the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council David Berteau joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Copyright © 2024 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.