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  • The revolution in federal procurement, 1980–present

  • Andrew J. Taylor
  • Journal:
    Business and Politics / Volume 21 / Issue 1 / March 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 June 2018, pp. 27-52

  • This paper examines revolutionary changes in the federal procurement regime that have taken place over roughly the past thirty-five years. The procurement process has long been formalized, but contractors were dispersed across the country and tended to furnish tangible goods in singular and discrete transactions. As a result of technology, global competition and security threats, ideological shifts, and fiscal changes, procurement spending exploded after 9/11 and today the regime forms “information communities” in which private companies exert both political and economic influence and supply staffing and information to the federal government within a continuous and seamless relationship where lines demarcating responsibilities and personnel are blurred.