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DOGE officially ends, but many of it's former employees are now entrenched into agencies.

I just wanted some other perspectives. I am a very experienced Contracting Officer with 20 years of acquisition experience. I just recently started a new position in a new organization and I submitted a package to management for review and they heavily edited/corrected my package. Not trying to sound arrogant, but it was a little bothersome to me because of my experience level and there wasn’t anything overly wrong with my package, they just wanted it in a different format and written in a different way. Am I being too sensitive? Has anyone ever dealt with this? Everyone is nice, it was just a little bothersome to me.

The DoD does contracting differently from civilian agencies. Everything is bigger over there. The requirements, the price tags, the workforce, the rule book, the resources.

I am thinking about this because I recently spent an hour of my life doing some mandatory training about commercial items. The DoD has, at least in that presentation, elaborate procedures - a whole group of people - for determine whether something is commercial or not. In my civilian agency, this is done informally. Everything is commercial except a few things that aren't - and it's an easy call. No DCMA consultation required, ever.

Another: The DFARS threshold for a written acquisition plan is $50MM for total value. My civilian agency's threshold was, until recently, $0.35MM. A different so large its best expressed in orders of magnitude (2).

Anyways, for those of you who've spent time in both worlds, what are the differences that stand out to you?

Haven't seen it posted here yet.

They mention c​hanges being included that aren't in the current deviations​. Other parts to be released soon, and they want to have it completed by the end of the calendar year.