Several provisions of the Acquisition System Improvement Act ("ASIA") (H.R. 4228) which is supposed to modernize and streamline the process employed by the U.S. Government for the purchase of goods and services, are considered controversial. This latest effort at procurement reform by the House Government Reform Committee Chairman, Tom Davis (R-Va), is largely comprised of the provisions of last year's Services Acquisition Reform Act ("SARA") that were dropped from the 2004 Defense Authorization Act.

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