Fifth Commandment Of Government Contractors: Thou Shalt Document Thy Actions

(This article is part of a 10-part series for the blog of Public Contracting Institute called, "A Government Contractor's Ten Commandments.")

When Congress was contemplating the passage of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (FASA), and its companion statute, the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995 (FARA), many pundits predicted that their enactment would make the world of Government contracts more like the commercial sector. Twenty years later, we know that is not the case; what really happened is that the two statutes made the world of Government contracting less unattractive to commercial vendors, and many firms began vying for Government contracts for the first time.