In efforts to streamline the Defense Logistics Agency, the Defense Contract Management Command (DCMC) has been carved out of the DLA, put under the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and renamed the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA).  Since its inception in 1991, DCMC has carried out the Defense Department’s contract administration services functions which replaced separate entities in the military services.  The functions of the new named DCMA will continue.

In reponse to considerable uncertainty over how specific the government must be in pointing out weaknesses during competitive negotiations with potential contractors, a proposed governmentwide rule published in the April 3 issue of the Federal Registrar clarifies that a CO is not required to discuss every area in which a proposal could be improved.  The proposed rule would revise FAR 15.306(d) that currently requires contracting officiers to discuss with each offeror being considered for award     “significant weaknesses, deficiencies and adverse past performance information has not yet had an opportunity to respond.”  The proposed rule would encourage COs to discuss other aspects of a proposal that could be altered to improve offerors’ chances of winning an award such as cost, price, technical approach, past performance and terms and conditions.  However, the rule would add a CO “is not required to discuss every area where the proposal could be improved” leaving the scope of such discussions to the discretion of the CO.

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