This is an relatively easy task that will save time for DoD’s tens of thousands of contracting officers and contract specialists — place hyperlinks in all DFARS clauses to the prescriptions. Some have hyperlinks, some don’t. While this doesn’t have a huge impact for a single person picking out clauses, scale it into thousands of people over years, and there are significant time drains. This isn’t a technically difficult thing to do, but it is tedious. Assign a few people to do this. It may even go unnoticed by many people, but it will help us do our jobs. As a special note, the lack of hyperlinks is called out during CON 090 courses, so people other than me are aware of this issue.
Link: FARSite
Sterling,
Why don’t you send an e-mail to the Webmaster? Maybe he/she is not aware of the clauses that don’t contain links to prescriptions. I’ve had good luck doing this in the past.
Done. Let’s see if it happens.
Good idea Sterling. I believe this is something they are doing as changes are made.
I had a response from FARSite. DPAP maintains the source files and doesn’t like them being messed with. A request is being made (again) by FARSite to address this and update the hyperlinks. I can only hope that it works.