CHAPTER 7
Performance-Based Acquisition for Services
(FAR 2.1, 7.1, 12.1, 32.10, 37.101, and 103, 37.6)
In an effort to improve federal acquisition methods and procedures, in 2005 the Acquisition Advisory Panel reviewed seven parts of the federal acquisitions system. The panel found that there was a need for improvement in the implementation of performance-based acquisition (PBA). The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) has encouraged greater use of performance-based contracting since 1991, but the panel found it had not been fully implemented by federal agencies. The panel reported that agencies were not clearly defining their requirements, developing adequate statements of work, identifying meaningful quality measures and effective ...
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