“The decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to shut down the Program Support Center’s assisted acquisition services isn’t just hurting agency customers during one of the busiest fourth quarters in recent memory. HHS now says it cannot transfer existing contracts back to customer agencies and that decision will reverberate over the next year. It will cause agencies to waste money and resources, and in the best of circumstances, the inability to transfer contracts is inconvenient, and in the worst case scenario, it will cause mission degradation.”
“What’s maybe worse than PSC’s untimely decision is its lack of communication, and some will say honesty, about the current situation.”
“Industry and agency sources said PSC has all but shut down communication with its customers…”
“So as agencies enter the last six weeks of fiscal year 2019 and the pressure mounts to spend annual money before Sept. 30, PSC, which helps agencies spent more than $1 billion a year for agencies including the Defense Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and many others, has basically gone silent…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS piling on the bad news for its assisted acquisition customers – By Jason Miller, August 19, 2019. Federal News Network.
