Federal Government Information Technology

Tony Scott welcomes unsolicited IT proposals from industry

Fedscoop: Tony Scott is fed up with the overly prescriptive federal IT procurement process.

After serving as the U.S. CIO for the past 21 months, Scott said Tuesday at ACT-IAC's Executive Leadership Conference "the really terrible way we deal with — or don't deal with — unsolicited proposals" is one of the "things that still bugs the heck out of me that I would like to see change."

"The notion that somebody in either an IT or procurement organization in government is going to think of the best way to do something and is then going to put out [a request for proposals], and that's going to generate the best ways for us to approach any problem I think is a silly notion," said Scott, who received ACT-IAC's Leadership Award at the conference.

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