When the U.S. government goes to the market for information technology, various contracting mechanisms come into play. In fact, as IT evolves, contracting follows, witness recent efforts at the General Services Administration to develop special procurement vehicles for both cloud technology and wireless services. However, a key factor in procurement has as much to do with the people involved in IT acquisitions as with contracting vehicles, say two recent studies. In general, federal agencies currently lack the type of person who can facilitate major IT acquisitions.