By Eric Krell
Declining budgets and a demand for increasing efficiency rule the day. And doing more with less has never been so important. But public sector consultants, so far at least, haven't seen the 'sequester shoe drop' like some had feared.
The federal budgeting dysfunction and sequestration have had a swift "but" effect on the public sector agencies that buy consulting services: "We'd send out an RFP, but we're going to wait and see what happens with sequestration;" "We'd like to continue the project, but we're going to de-scope or terminate;" "We're going to pull the trigger, but we just don't know when."
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