PSC recognizes that the challenges, as well as the opportunities, facing the government marketplace are tremendous.  This requires the association to be agile and ready to act.

PSC is the industry’s leader on the full range of outsourcing, procurement, and related government business issues and prides itself on direct access to decision makers across the government. Congress routinely seeks out PSC testimony  and PSC staff and members are fixtures on Capitol Hill and throughout the agencies, providing knowledgeable, credible and essential insight and information on the issues that matter.

In addition to its widely acknowledged role as the industry's leading voice on outsourcing, A-76, and related issues, PSC:

• played a central role in helping to frame the major acquisition reform legislation and policies of the 90’s and most recently, played an equally central role in helping to frame and get through Congress the Services Acquisition Reform Act;
   
• helped lead the industry’s legislative and regulatory initiatives on indemnification for anti-terrorism technologies, has sponsored a series of special programs focused on implementation of the SAFETY Act; and continues to work directly with the Department of Homeland Security on a wide array of procurement and related issues;
  leads the industry’s efforts on challenges, and improvements, to the GSA Schedules and multiple award contracts;
   
• is working directly with the Department of Defense and its components on initiatives to develop better oversight of services acquisitions;
   
• has collaborative partnerships with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and jointly with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Defense Contract Management Agency, and Defense Contract Audit Agency.  Each of these partnerships is designed to identify and develop ways in which to improve business, procurement, and contract finance and payment processes;

• is acknowledged as a critical link between numerous federal agencies and the private sector, including but not limited to the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Transportation; HUD, Veterans Affairs, NASA, the US Agency for International Development, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the General Services Administration;

• was the first, and only, industry organization to take on the full range of difficult issues associated with deployed employees, including addressing with the DoD leadership new and unique contract clauses, special challenges associated with Iraq Reconstruction, and access to adequate and cost-effective workers compensation policies under the Defense Base Act;

• was the first and only government contractor organization to engage with the SEC and the Financial Accounting Standards Board on critical issues associated with revenue recognition and reporting, including SOP 81-1.