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Joint Technology Committee advances bill to increase IT procurement transparency
Summary
The committee introduced and voted 5–1 to advance a bill requiring the Joint Technology Committee to receive procurement information (RFIs or market research) with IT budget requests and to allow JTC review, including optional executive sessions for proprietary information.
The Joint Technology Committee voted 5–1 on Oct. 12 to introduce draft legislation titled Purchasing Transparency for Information Technology Procurement, which would require agencies to submit information-gathering documents and formal market research with IT budget requests and expand JTC’s review role.
The legislation, described by the chair as aimed at giving the Joint Technology Committee (JTC) the information it needs to evaluate IT projects, would authorize JTC to perform annual reviews of IT project rates and billing practices, require that budget requests include information from requests for information (RFIs) or formal market research, and authorize JTC to review those RFI responses…
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