On Friday, May 29, the GSA IT 70 group sent out a mass e-mail to schedule holders with an update on their customer relations improvements. Amongst the message was the following production numbers since Jan 2009:
400 new contracts issued, 7,300 mods approved and 450 contract extensions issued.
Now, these sound like big numbers but once divided amongst the Centers 122 staff, they fail to impress me. In five months, 400 new contracts is a mere 3.28 contracts per Contract Specialist/Contracting Officer (CS/CO) (less than one (1) a month), only 11.97 mods were produced per CS/CO, per month and each averaged 3.69 contract extensions.
When I was a CS for the DoD in the mid 1980's, the production expectations were a mere ten (10) line items per day and me and the other recent college grads averaged over 100 per day and were looked at with scorn by the old CS/CO guard. I actually had all of my end-of-year contracts completed by the end of July and I spent the next two-months working the caseloads of other CS/CO's who performed at the minimum expectations. My prize for said service, was employee of the month, in which I was allowed to park my dilapidated 1971 BMW 2002 next to the General's car for a week (a funny site).
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