SIIA applauds House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) for his recognition that there needs to be a substantial improvement to federal IT procurement practices to keep pace with evolving technology. Today, Rep. Issa posted a discussion draft of IT procurement reform legislation. As SIIA has said previously, we share the goal of developing a cadre of specialized IT acquisition personnel and are pleased that the bill acknowledges that cloud computing is becoming mainstream in the federal government.
On a related note, SIIA submitted comments today to the General Services Administration (GSA) in response to the Cloud Brokerage RFI, an area that is addressed in the bill, and we encourage those comments to be considered by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as they look at that area of the legislation. We look forward to working with Chairman Issa and the Committee as they move forward to craft a final bill that serves to improve IT acquisition practices to the benefit of vendors and the federal government.
Michael Hettinger is VP for the Public Sector Innovation Group (PSIG) at SIIA. Follow his PSIG tweets at @SIIAPSIG.