This series of FAR summaries is meant to take a meaningful portion of the Federal Acquisition Regulations to ensure an easy-to-understand approach to maintain that readers comprehend the approach of doing business with the government and that the government exercises a fair and reasonable approach to doing business with the general public.
FAR 39.102 Management Of Risk
When it comes to buying software and hardware, the government has to understand how the purchase effects national security while on local and regional servers as well as the national network as a whole.
Per FAR 39.102(a), the Contracting Officer must weigh risk, benefit and cost (FAR Part 7). Risks can be taken if they are accounted for.
All pieces of IT equipment are coded and tracked in every office and every agency. Standard government technology is often obselete compared to the commercial sector. That’s because private business isn’t fighting dictators and the Taliban. For example, 90% of the phones at the FSS don’t have a caller ID and probably 100% of the computers are at least ten years old when busted out of the box.
The biggest hiccup to modernizing the government is technology. The servers need fiberoptics and more memory compensates for slow and freezing applications. IT support is contracted out and they are kept busy.
I’ve never wrote IT contracts but my friend Andre has and they are run-of-the-mill.
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