PREFACE
This book is about past performance. It seeks to provide a well-rounded perspective that includes both industry and government points of view. As such, we intend it to inform, advise, and challenge those of us doing business with the government as well as those doing business for the government. We hope it will help aspiring government contractors, government procurement officials, and program managers improve company and contractor performance as well as the management and use of past performance information on both sides of the contracting process. We all share the same goal—to bring awareness of the significance of firm past performance and get it to speak volumes about a particular bidder’s ability to deliver the best results—cost-effectively ...
