Establish an interagency team to develop a plan for improving federal information technology (IT) acquisitions. By December 1993, the Administrator, General Services Administration (GSA), should establish an interagency team to develop a governmentwide approach to improve management of IT acquisitions. This effort should operate within the overall context of IT reinvention activities within the federal government. The team should function as a subelement of the Government Information Technology Services Working Group.9 The team should: -- review agency IT program plans, goals, and objectives by March 1994, and recommend specific delegations; -- act on behalf of all agencies with the goal of obtaining their agreement to work within the team's recommendations; -- be chaired by an agency team member who will report the team's findings and recommendations to the Administrator, GSA; -- be composed primarily of senior agency management officials able to consult with IT officials, private sector experts, Congress, and central management agencies (OMB, OFPP, NIST, etc.) to analyze issues and develop guiding principles, best practices, and performance measures for a streamlined, wellmanaged IT acquisition process; -- develop an interagency team approach for managing those IT procurements that have potential effects beyond a single agency; -- review GSA's ongoing role in IT with the goal of placing maximum accountability for IT with agency heads and emphasizing GSA's role and capability of being a "center of expertise," providing acquisition consultation and management services consistent with current law; and -- examine the issue of commodities to define better the boundary between acquisitions that do and do not need special authority and oversight in the law and the FIRMR. This includes advising the Administrator, GSA, prior to January 1994, regarding the pilot identified in action item 4, below. By April 1994, the Administrator, GSA, should provide the Vice President with the team's findings, recommendations, and plans for implementation. Endnote 9. See "IT01: Provide Clear, Strong Leadership to Integrate Information Technology into the Business of Government," National Performance Review Accompanying Report, Reengineering Through Information Technology (Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, September 1993).
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