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Moeller, H. C. (2005). 'New Techniques, Same Skills'. Contract Management 45(8): 50.
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In the electronic age, the contract manager must continue to employ the old skills of follow-through and attention to detail. The seeming comfort that can be drawn from seeing information posted on a Web-based interactive contract management system can turn into unforgiving misery, unless certain specific actions are taken to make that information effective and binding. These hard lessons are from a public bidding case, involving an agency that electronically received and displayed detailed information supplied by vendors. Specifically, the agency used its electronics contract management system (EGMS) to receive and confirm information about subcontractors that would be used in road construction projects. Attorneys may appreciate a moral victory in the vigor and forcefulness of the dissent's argument. But for the meantime, contract managers are left to deal with strict compliance with agency procurement instructions, even as innovative technological approaches are introduced.