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‘Best-in-class’ contracts are a trendThe White House appears to be shifting away from “category management” and toward a “best-in-class” contract approach in procurement. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) recently sent out a draft memo outlining a policy of using so-called “best-in-class” contracts, according to FederalNewsRadio. Potentially, the next step could be establishing goals for agencies to meet in using such contracts. The best-in-class contracts presumably would include the General Services Administration’s “OASIS” professional services contract and the Alliant IT services contracts. The government would choose the best-in-class contracts through data analysis, according to reports. Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, has predicted that best-in-class is likely to be a major federal procurement initiative. As such, it could replace the Obama Administration’s category management initiatives. In July, the Trump administration released a memo ordering agencies to use best-in-class delivery services. Waldron says that model is likely to be applied to other goods and services. Agency and industry sources have pushed back against the best-in-class idea, saying that it does not take into account agencies’ unique and complex mission needs. “The OFPP/OMB are establishing a management framework that selects BIC contract ‘winners and losers’ based on government-unique processes and data reporting, rather than contract performance characteristics that deliver best value mission support,” Waldron wrote. Furthermore, the choice of best-in-class contracts as currently described requires no industry inputs, he added.
More Information:
Coalition for Government Procurement blog: http://goo.gl/FRRAaj
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