According to the report, the Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, responding for the under secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, concurred with recommendations to develop a training course on proper acquisition planning and contract administration, establish policy on contract administration roles and responsibilities when purchasing goods and services through a non-DoD agency, and finalize negotiations with the VA to develop interagency agreements that specify agreed upon roles and responsibilities for contract administration and surveillance duties.
The procurement director also agreed to work with the VA to develop and implement a joint corrective action plan, advise the VA that Defense Acquisition University courses covering sole-source justifications and price reasonableness determinations are available to VA contracting officers, negotiate with non-DoD agencies to determine the best method to record contractor performance on all government contractors, and utilize a "past performance information retrieval system."
