COMPETITION IN THE PROCUREMENT OF MILITARY HARD GOODS

Abstract

A major issue in defense procurement is how to obtain price competition for the specialized military goods and services. A corollary issue is how to protect the public interest in procurements where competition cannot be relied upon for protection. This paper will briefly consider both issues as they emerge in the procurement of specialized hard goods. Attention is focused on hard goods for two reasons. First, competition is relatively prevalent in the soft goods area, except for R and D services. Second, although research and development is largely noncompetitive, the barriers to competition here are so severe that the prospects for significant increases in price rivalry are not encouraging. For hard goods, however, competition is relatively scarce, yet there appear to be feasible methods for obtaining significant increases in price rivalry.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0667558

Entities

People

  • G. R. Hall
  • R. E. Johnson

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Motivation
  • Procurement
  • Standards
  • Technology Transfer
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.