On the recordApril 28, 2010
I ask for the support of the Grayson amendment to the IMPROVE Act to give legislative guidance to the Defense Department concerning the need to emphasize price or cost in defense procurement. Under current law, the DOD contracting officer--could be a GS-8, GS-9--has no authority, no guidance from this institution to determine how much should be considered for cost or price. Rather, the contracting officer on his or her own volition establishes an evaluation scheme before each procurement, telling the offerers how their proposal will be evaluated. Current law permits DOD to announce an evaluation scheme that would consider price or cost as only 1 percent of the evaluation and other more subjective factors as 99 percent of the evaluation scheme.
