Question

21. (14 points) Per Chapter 1 of the Acquisition Management textbook, complete the following quoted paragraphs to include the date FASA was signed into law and the overall goal of the Act. 

In _______  President Bill Clinton signed into law the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA), which is the most significant attempt to reform the government's acquisition process since World War II, and is a flow-down of the core vision and guiding principles from the National Performance Review (NPR). 

The overall goal of FASA is to streamline the contracting process through:

23. (6 points) As defined in the FAR define the following terms and briefly discuss the differences.  

a) Contract clause or clause 

b) Solicitation provision or provision 

c) What are the 2 primary differences between a clause and provision?

Answer 1

Answer 21: In October 1994 president bill Clinton signed into law the federal acquisition streamlinng act FASA, which is the most significant attempt to reform the contracting process since world war 2, and is a flow-down of the core vision and guiding principles from the NPR.

The overall goal was to make the contracting process more efficient and effective by employing faster or simpler working methods which included the following steps:

1. Using proven contractors with clean past records to reduce risk.

2. Maximum usage of e-commerce.

3. Encouraging the use of government commercial products to satisfy government requirements.

4. Use of automated purchasing procedures.

5. Reducing procurement lead times.

6. Eliminating non - value-added rules and procedures.

Answer 23: CLAUSE - It is a part or term of a bill i.e, a section, phrase, paragraph or segment of a legal document such as a deed, will or constitution.

PROVISION - This is a legal condition contained within a contract that requires one or both parties a particular requirement by some specified time or prevents one or both the parties from performing a particular requirement by the specified time. Provision is a wider concept and has a clause within itself