The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has completed its cuts to federal job roles and is now focusing on IT service providers. Following a GSA directive, major vendors like Dell and CDW are being asked to justify their pricing and service offerings. The push aims to bring digital services in-house, a model inspired by the U.K.'s successful GOV.UK platform. Critics argue that DOGE's layoffs have undermined its ability to execute this goal, suggesting that past internal teams like the U.S. Digital Service could have facilitated the transition.
"I'm fully in alignment with the need to in-house government capacity and government services," says Merici Vinton, a former U.S. Digital Service official.
"Digital is a core function of a modern state," says Richard Pope, author of Platformland and one of the original architects of GOV.UK.
"They had things like the U.S. Digital Service and 18F, the internal consultancy, that could have made it work." - Ann Kempster.
The GSA argues that federal tech needs are often less complex than what vendors deliver, and not everything needs to be outsourced.
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