Location
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Jamaica Room
Start Date
1-5-2001 2:00 PM
Description
Services comprise approximately fifty percent of what the Government buys, and with dwindling budgets and increasing costs, many recent reform initiatives have centered on using more commercial practices to obtain these needed services more effectively and efficiently. One of the most important of these initiatives is the use of performance-based acquisition strategies for services. Dr. Jacques Gansler, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology established a goal for DOD to have, at a minimum, fifty percent of service acquisitions, measured in both dollars and actions, to be performancebased by the year 2005. Deputy Secretary of Department of Transportation (DOT), Mortimer Downey, set DOT’s goal at eighty percent by end of FY 2004 for contract actions to meet the criteria of performance-based service contracting. Similar goals have been established by NASA. The hopes are for significant savings and greater customer satisfaction though performance gains in timeliness, quality, and productivity.
Paper Session I-A - Performance Based Launch Services Contracts: Better, Faster, Cheaper?
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Jamaica Room
Services comprise approximately fifty percent of what the Government buys, and with dwindling budgets and increasing costs, many recent reform initiatives have centered on using more commercial practices to obtain these needed services more effectively and efficiently. One of the most important of these initiatives is the use of performance-based acquisition strategies for services. Dr. Jacques Gansler, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology established a goal for DOD to have, at a minimum, fifty percent of service acquisitions, measured in both dollars and actions, to be performancebased by the year 2005. Deputy Secretary of Department of Transportation (DOT), Mortimer Downey, set DOT’s goal at eighty percent by end of FY 2004 for contract actions to meet the criteria of performance-based service contracting. Similar goals have been established by NASA. The hopes are for significant savings and greater customer satisfaction though performance gains in timeliness, quality, and productivity.
