• 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

• PSC leads industry efforts to promote changes to rules governing public/private competitions, including additional revisions to OMB Circular A-76

• Stan Soloway joins as PSC President

• PSC’s advocacy agenda is the top priority, but new, in-depth customer engagements emerge as PSC members’ knowledge and expertise are increasingly sought by agencies and components seeking best practices and transformational advice; key alliances formed with Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, Treasury, HHS, USAID, Air Force, Navy, and more

• PSC leads industry efforts to defeat the TRAC Act, the most dangerous anti-competition and anti-outsourcing legislation in more than a decade

• Alan Chvotkin joins as PSC Senior Vice President and Counsel

• PSC leads industry negotiations with Congress and DoD on new rules governing GSA Schedules and Multiple Award Contract purchases

• PSC membership tops 140 companies for the first time; over 150 registrants (and 225 people total) attend the PSC Annual Conference

• PSC President Stan Soloway named to congressionally mandated Commercial Activities Panel, chaired by the Comptroller General, that recommends to Congress far-reaching changes to A-76

• PSC leads industry efforts on the President’s Millennium Challenge Account and SEC rules regarding completion accounting methods

• PSC-led IPT (co-led by the Directors of DCMA, DFAS, and DCAA) presents recommendations for improving contract formation, payment, and close-out processes