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William Clinger: “That is absolutely untrue. What we are saying is that the procurement officials, very front and center, they are very…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 1995
That is absolutely untrue. What we are saying is that the procurement officials, very front and center, they are very much on the front line of the decisions that they make, are going to be given a little more flexibility, a little more discretion, in how they do these things. They are going to be answerable for decisions they make, and, in fact if they exclude people, they have to go on record in writing why and on the basis on which they excluded those people from the competition. So, it is not a nameless, faceless bureaucrat. It is going to be a very visible procurement officer.
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William Clinger
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Defending the role and accountability of procurement officials in government contracting.

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