Yahoo (the exclamation not website)!! Law maker says give us money, give us bonuses.

At last, someone on Capitol Hill is talking sense. Rep. Tom Davis, speaking before the Association of Government Accountants, told the group that trained, effective contracting professionals are very important to the whole procurement process.

In the article, he said,

You've got a lot of good [acquisition] people in government, but if you're not training them on an ongoing basis, you're losing out," Davis told the
auditors. "I would pay them, I would bonus them." [I added the italics]

He also blasted last congressional session's Clean Contracting Act (see my post here regarding Rep. Henry Waxman's current iteration of that legislation ) as creating too much oversight for the effort involved and potential savings.

On the subject of Government Purchase Cards (GPC), he said that efforts to restrict them are detrimental to the procurement process. He points to a:

misguided focus on the relatively small downside of abuse, rather than the large
administrative savings the cards generate

Read the whole article for more interesting details. Considering it is a group of accountants, that turned out to be a good meeting to have attended.

Government Purchase Card program needs regular oversight

This is a story of GPC misuse. Once again, someone is given the responsibility to do things faster, better, cheaper and only thought of themselves. Just remember, he will always be known as the guy who bought $682.50 in golf balls for $1,409 and may get 15 years in jail.

Note his creative writing skills. There will be quite a future for him as a jailhouse lawyer and author!

Crime still doesn't pay.