Please give some kudos to the Government Contract Specialists and Contracting Officers who award and administer these thousands of supply, service, contingency and construction contracts. For every contract, we work our behinds off ’til late hours on weekdays and on weekends if necessary, to get solicitations out specifying what the military urgently needs; fairly and properly evaluate prospective contractors’ price and technical proposals in accordance with a whole slew of regulations and policies; justify in lengthy, narrative writing who we’re awarding to and why it’s in the Govt’s best interest to award to that company; then, administer the contract through its end by monitoring the contractor’s performance and ensuring that all contract requirements are completed satisfactorily. The contractors get praise for their work, but the Government civilian contracting professionals who award and manage those contracts rarely get any kind of recognition.
