Procurement Round Table | Publications

PRT Annual Contracting Professional Excellence Award

2019 Award Winner,
Ms. Lori-Ann Rissler.

Recent PRT Guest Speakers:

PRT Hosted Forum on "Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Integrity - Delivering Uncompromised While Maximizing Access to the Global Marketplace"

Kim Herrington, Acting Principal Director, Defense Pricing and Contracting, (USD(A&S)).

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Note: Views expressed reflect those of individual PRT Directors (former and current) and not consensus of the entire PRT Board of Directors

2018
Memo to GSA: Contracts with high access fees don't fly with customers
June 2018, By Larry Allen
DoD cloud strategy: Stifling innovation in the name of innovation
March 2018, By Roger Waldron
Meet the contracting folks who are encouraging new IT vendors
March 2018, By Steve Kelman
Urban Myths: Are GSA's prices fair and reasonable?
January 2018, By Roger Waldron

2017
Questions continue regarding DoD's cloud forecast
December 2017, By Roger Waldron
'Reinventing government', 25 years later
December 2017, By Steve Kelman
Transformation two-step: Challenges for government and industry
November 2017, By Stan Soloway
Could 'microconsulting' disrupt government contracting?
July 2017, By Steve Kelman
Senate attempt to reduce protests misses the point
July 2017, By Stan Soloway
Contract protests up; contract awards down. What to do?
July 2017, By Michael Fischetti
Best-in-class contracts: Where is the classroom?
July 2017, By Roger Waldron
Section 801: Limiting competition to 'increase' competition?
June 2017, By Roger Waldron
Run, don't walk, away from GSA's transactional data reporting rule
April 2017, By Larry Allen
Trump reorganization could improve federal procurement
March 2017, By Roger Waldron
Trump reorganization could improve federal procurement
March 2017, By Roger Waldron
The new Office of American Innovation -- let's give Trump credit
March 2017, By Steve Kelman
The new Office of American Innovation -- let's give Trump credit
March 2017, By Steve Kelman
OAI: A jump start for procurement innovation
March 2017, By Roger Waldron
PRT Letter of Recommendations to President-Elect Trump
January 2017, PRT Chairman Allan V. Burman, Ph.D with contributions from PRT Officers & Directors

2016
Procurement policy and the transition sweepstakes
December 2016 By Steve Kelman
OFPP and category management: Pressing the pause button
December 2016 By By Roger Waldron
Trump leases his D.C. hotel from a government agency he’ll soon be in charge of
November 2016 By Steven L. Schooner and Daniel I. Gordon
Donald Trump's management agenda?
November 2016 By Steve Kelman
Procurement policy world heats up during dog days of summer
August 2016 By Roger Waldron
Transactional Data Reporting: A customary commercial practice?
July 2015 By Roger Waldron
How GSA can make it easier to deliver best value services and solutions
April 2016 By Roger Waldron
Benchmarking Silicon Valley
March 2016 By Michael Fischetti
Why acquisition reformers should follow Willie Sutton’s advice
January 2016 By Larry Allen
Say 'yes, if...' not 'no, because...'
January 2016 By Michael Fischetti

2014
NDIA Pathway to Transformation Acquisition Report
December 2014, Co-authored by PRT Director Etherton with contributions from PRT Directors Avetissian and Drabkin
PRT Director Papers to Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on “Improving Defense Acquisition of Goods and Services”
September 2014 By Honorable Jacques S. Gansler
DoD Acquisition Reform, PRT Chairman Letter to SASC and HASC
September 2014
Jon Etherton, Testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee
April 2014
David J. Berteau, Testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee
April 2014

2013
Acquisition Data Needs, PRT Chairman Letter to USD (AT&L)
April 2013

2012
A Toxic Work Environment Threatens Acquisition Personnel Gains
FCW October 2012, by Anne Reed, Daniel I. Gordon and Al Burman
Acquisition: Bridging the Communication Gaps
FCW November 2012, by Anne Reed, Daniel I. Gordon and Al Burman

2011
Democracy's Arsenal (Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry)
June 2011 By Jacques S. Gansler
A Random Walk: The Federal Circuit's 2010 Government Contracts Decisions
April 2011 By Steven L. Schooner
The Lectern
April 2011 By Steve Kelman
A Versatile Prism: Assessing Procurement Law Through the Principal-Agent Model
March 2011 By Christopher R. Yukins
Emerging Policy and Practice Issues
March 2011 By Steven L. Schooner & David J. Berteau
2010
Structure and Dynamics of the U.S. Federal Professional Services Industrial Base, 1995-2009
November 2010 By David J. Berteau el al
Suing the Government as a 'Joint Employer' -
Evolving Pathologies of the Blended Workforce
October 2010 By Steven L. Schooner el al
Contractors and the Ultimate Sacrifice
September 2010 By Steven L. Schooner el al
Are Private Security Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?
June 2010 By Allan V. Burman
Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act, PRT Letter
February 2010
Interagency Contracts (Part I): Overview and Recommendations for Reform
February 2010 By Ralph Nash & Steven L. Schooner

2009
Achieving Effective Reform
April 2009 By Steve Kelman & Steven L. Schooner
Acquisition Leadership, PRT Letter
March 2009
2008
Treasury Beware
October 2008 By David Litman
2007
Interagency Contracting, PRT Paper
October 2007
The Blended Workforce
May 2007 By Richard J. Bednar & Gary P. Quigley
Advisory Panel Report to Congress and OFPP
January 2007
2006
A New Approach to Performance-Based Services Acquisition
August 2006 By Vernon Edwards & Ralph Nash
Attracting and Retaining the Right Talent
August 2006 By Shirl Nelson
Crisis of Contracting
April 2006 By Bill Tuttle, Susan Livingstone & Bob Welch
1999
The Federal Acquisition System: Transitioning to the 21st Century
December 1999
A Briefing Chart on Transitioning to the 21st Century
1998
Competing Federal Commercial Activities: A Critical Time for Congressional Direction
February 1998