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Making Federal Information Technology Accessible: A Case Study In Social Policy And Procurement, Christopher R. Yukins
Making Federal Information Technology Accessible: A Case Study In Social Policy And Procurement, Christopher R. Yukins
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that all information technology bought by the federal government be accessible to persons with disabilities. That goal, simple to state, has been enormously complex to implement. In imposing a social initiative on the procurement system, Congress has left a huge number of issues unresolved - including, most critically, who is to pay for the initiative. This article reviews the issues raised by Section 508, and traces common patterns that emerge when, as with Section 508, social goals are implemented through a large, complex, and deeply entrenched procurement system. The article traces the impact …
Competitive Sourcing Policy: More Sail Than Rudder, Steven L. Schooner
Competitive Sourcing Policy: More Sail Than Rudder, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This essay predicts that the Bush administration's competitive sourcing initiative will fail. Granted, the number of government employees will continue to shrink, while the number of contractor personnel serving the Government will methodically increase. But the Government's unwillingness to appreciate the policy's costs leads to the corresponding failure to identify, obtain, and invest appropriate resources needed to properly effectuate the policy. The Government simply lacks sufficient qualified acquisition, contract management, and quality control personnel to handle the outsourcing burden. Because the Government is ill-positioned to successfully out-source in a manner that generates higher quality services, lower prices, greater efficiency, or, …