The Trump administration asks the agencies to exterminate consultants

The Trump administration asks the agencies to check their advisory contracts with at least 10 large companies, including some global companies, as part of the efforts to shorten “non-essential consulting contracts”.

The incumbent director of General Services Administration, Stephen Ehikian, asked “Senior Procurement Executive (s) agency” to check their advisory contracts with the 10 companies. Memo from February 26th received by NEXTGOV/FCW.

These 10 companies “will receive over 65 billion US dollars in 2025 and future years,” wrote Ehikian.

“That has to and must change,” he added fat.

The GSA had already asked the agencies to check all contracts with the companies in question and affiliated companies and to end everyone in addition to those who are regarded as mission -critical and regarded “content -related, imperative technical support”, wrote Ehikian.

“There were not enough measures,” he continued. “We call for every agency to check these consulting contracts if you have the size and the scope again.”

He gave the agency’s procurement manager until March 7 to create a list of contracts with the companies in question that hold their agencies, and those who cancel them, as well as a “signed explanation of a senior civil servant” who checks the criticism of the agency that the agency maintains.

All 10 companies listed in the memo keep first -class positions in Oasis, a state contract vehicle led by the GSA, with which other federal authorities acquire professional services that are not technically centered.

Oasis was opened for the business in 2014 and the agencies have since signed the expenses for the vehicle around 46.7 billion US dollars.

Six of the ten largest spending recipients of Oasis are quoted in the memo: Booz Allen, Saic, Leidos, General Dynamics IT, Hill Mission Technologies Corp. and Deloitte.

Many of the listed companies are also included in Alliant 2 and CIO SP3 contracts as well as the GSA time plan.

It is unclear whether all procurement employees have received the message or only those in larger federal authorities from all agencies. A GSA spokesman has not clarified which agencies have received the memo NEXTGOV/FCW To certain agencies for information on certain agency contracts, but said in a statement that “the GSA took immediate measures in order to implement all current management orders entirely and have undertaken to take measures to implement new executive orders.”

In addition to a new implementation regulation in which the agencies are instructed, the announcement is made to set up central technologies in order to record all payments issued by contracts and grants and the justification for these payments. The agency’s executives were also asked to check all grants and contracts within 30 days and to cancel them or to change them in order to reduce the expenditure according to this executive regulation.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has already advertised contractor incorporation in the agencies, although the savings calculations of the DOGE are interspersed with errors that New York Times reported. For example, four contracts on the “wall of the receipts” of the Doge have not made any savings as no savings Washington Technology registered on Tuesday.

“IBM has been dealing with technology for decades to help us NEXTGOV/FCW in an explanation. “Today IBM supports the modernization and provision of business -critical federal services and systems, from the processing of veteran health claims faster to enabling a more efficient digital taxpayer experience. We are proud of it and our additional work in the US government and strive to help agencies become more efficient and to achieve better results for the American public. “

Gdit, CGI and Leidos refused to make a comment, and NEXTGOV/FCW has turned to other companies mentioned in the memo.