Military Plans Procurement Policy Change
The Defense Department has filed a proposal to change its procurement policy for trucking services and will take comments on the plan into September.
The old system is more than 35 years old, and was based on the idea that trucking would be regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission. With the advent of deregulation in the 1980s, those assumptions are out of step with the current situation.
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In the July 21 issue of the Federal Register, the Pentagon announced its intentions to bring its procedures in line with another law called the Federal Acquisition Regulation. If enacted, the rules will apply to most long-term trucking services procured by the Military Traffic Management Command, based in Alexandria, Va.
“We will assist industry in the conversion from a tender-based system,” said Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky, commander of MTMC.
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