Government Contractor Purchasing Horizon

When Every Purchase Counts: Navigating Government Contractor Purchasing Compliance

The Real Cost of Getting It Wrong I sat across from a procurement manager last year who had a story that still makes him wince. His firm, a mid-sized defense subcontractor, had ordered office supplies from a vendor that wasn't on the approved list. It was a small buy, just a few hundred dollars for printer toner and paper clips. But because the purchase bypassed the required competitive bidding process, the company ended up in an audit finding that snowballed into a six-mo