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directed that all agencies achieve a 2 percent reduction in single-bid contracts in FY11, with continuing reductions thereafter.


• Increase the dynamic small business role in defense marketplace competition. Carter’s Nov. 3 memorandum directs that all competitive and noncompeti- tive procurements seek to increase small business participation through weight- ing factors in past performance and in fee construct.


IMPROVING TRADECRAFT IN SERVICES ACQUISITION DOD spends about $200 billion a year on services and about $178 million on weapon systems. It is taking an especially hard look at knowledge-based services, which include program management, logistics support, and systems engineering support, Assad said.


Not all of those contracts should be fixed- price, he said. “The reality is cost-type contracts might, in fact, be more effec- tive. And right now … when you look at the three services, we have a very different approach in this world of knowledge- based services.” The Navy uses almost exclusively cost-type contracts, Assad said; the Army typically has used time- and-materials contracts; and the Air Force used firm, fixed-price basis.


“So everybody’s buying IT, and every- body’s buying facility support services, and everybody’s buying knowledge-based services, and everybody’s buying it differ- ently,” Griffin said. That’s why the Army and Navy recently appointed senior man- agers for services, similar to what the Air Force had already done.


The goal is that “everybody’s speaking the same language on services, calling the same type of service the same way, look- ing at the spending information, looking


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at the small business community’s capa- bilities, looking at different geographical areas and what the market will give you in those areas, standardizing scopes of work


… so that you guys don’t have to start a proposal from Square One every single time you bid on something,” Griffin said.


In the Army, “We’re certainly looking for opportunities to consolidate” services contracts, said James C. Sutton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Services. The review is looking horizontally across six portfolios, and vertically through com- mands. Metrics are also being developed for an annual review of services


REDUCING NONPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES AND BUREAUCRACY Nicholas M. Torelli Jr., Director of Mis- sion Assurance in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, served as a co-leader last year of the Acquisition Documenta- tion Streamlining Task Force. The task force examined documents required to support all program milestone and major decision points.


On several occasions, he has asked members of industry to identify what


TRANSLATION SERVICES Identifying best practices in contracting for services is a goal of the Better Buying Power Initiatives. Here, MG Abdul Ameer, the 12th Iraqi Army Division Commander, and COL Ryan Gonsalves, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, confer with the help of a translator at K-1, a military base in Kirkuk Province, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by PFC Justin Naylor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs.)


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