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Key components of President's Management Agenda

Trump to apply category mgmt. to save $18 Billion by FY2020

Goal: apply to 60% of fed’l agencies’ “common spend”

      Under President Trump’s management agenda, category management will be applied across the board to save $18 billion by fiscal 2020 on common goods and services that the agencies buy.

      The goal is to apply category management to 60% of spending on items and services that the agencies commonly buy by the end of 2020.

      Currently, agencies pay a variety of prices for the same or similar items and services. Under category management, there would be only “best in class” offerings, and presumably overall prices would be reduced.

Impact on small businesses

      The move may hurt small business federal contractors, ...more....

     

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Trump to apply category mgmt. to save $18 Billion by FY2020

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