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07/28/08
Potential GSA head to be decided on July 30
By Matthew Weigelt
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will consider Jim Williams’ nomination to head the General Services Administration July 30 at a committee markup, the panel’s chairman said.
At Williams’ confirmation hearing July 25, Chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the next GSA administrator has a lot to do in the five months left in this administration.
Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the committee’s ranking member, questioned Williams about his involvement in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over its Multiple Award Schedule contract.
According to a 2004 audit, Sun billed the government millions of dollars more under a contract awarded in 1999 for products and services than it charged its commercial customers — a violation of contract requirements.
Williams said he believed he did nothing wrong in a dispute over the contract. Williams acknowledged he pressured a contracting officer to leave the case but said he believed he was being fair to the officer.
“Looking back, I would have done things differently,” he said.
Matthew Weigelt writes for Federal Computer Week, an 1105 Government Information Group publication.
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