• NCPSFE renamed the Professional Services Council (PSC)

• Virginia Littlejohn becomes first PSC Executive Director

• PSC defeats Defense Department plan to create new FFRDC to support Star Wars

• PSC leads defeat of Consultant Reform Act of 1980 that would have halted all federal contractors and their employees

• PSC helps coalesce industry to defeat the Taft Moratorium that would have required a moratorium on all Defense Department service contracting

• PSC plays key role in creation of the Business Alliance on Government Competition, a broad coalition to promote greater access to government markets

• PSC is the driving force behind the creation of Standard Industrial Code 87—Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management and Related Services, a significant, substantive, and symbolic accomplishment

• The Bombay Group of USAID and World Bank contractors join PSC, and the PSC International Development Task Force is formed

• PSC leases its own offices

• Mark Schultz joins PSC as Executive Director

• Bert Concklin joins PSC as its first President

• PSC major procurement reform advocacy reflected in Clinton Administration’s National Performance Review

• PSC leads the way on cost realism, and releases the first Cost Realism Manual

• PSC helps guide revisions to the Standard Industrial Classification Codes and revisions to the definition of inherently governmental functions

• PSC plays key role in drafting and pushing through Congress the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA), the most significant acquisition reform legislation

• FASA success followed by passage of the Clinger/Cohen Act that provides for sweeping changes to federal management and procurement of information technology

• PSC’s decade-long advocacy of Best Value acquisition becomes a reality with the rewrite of Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 15

• PSC emerges as key leader on reforms to federal procurement protest rules, organizational conflict of interest rules, and past performance

• PSC pushes through legislation that for the first time provides service contractors interest on late government payments

• PSC works with Congress to craft contract bundling statutes that receive support from large and small businesses