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Evaluating Obama's acquisition initiatives
In part 4 of our special, week-long multimedia report, The Obama Impact: Evaluating the Last Four Years, Federal News Radio rated six of the Obama administration's major acquisition initiatives. We found four were ineffective against their stated goals and the difference they made across government.
Special Report: Reducing high-risk contracts yields mixed results
Agencies failed to meet a lofty goal to cut spending on new contracts considered high-risk by 10 percent. But despite the inconclusive results, contracting experts and agency procurement chiefs told Federal News Radio there's more to evaluating the effort to reduce high-risk contracts than the failure to reach the goal. Federal News Radio examines this as part of the special report, The Obama Impact: Evaluating the Last Four Years.
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The Obama administration has pushed agencies to increase contracting opportunities with small business, most notably creating a governmentwide task force to share best practices. Yet the federal government on a whole has continued to miss its 23 percent small business contracting goal. Federal News Radio examines this issue as part of our special report, The Obama Impact: Evaluating the Last Four Years.
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When there are a bunch of small funding periods [it] tends to prevent agencies from doing all of the acquisition forecasting that they need. So, as we look forward, we need to take that as somewhat of a reality. 
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