Strategic Sourcing: Improved and Expanded Use Could Provide Significant Procurement Savings

Abstract

GAO has reported that the government is not fully leveraging its aggregate buying power. Strategic sourcing, a process that moves an organization away from numerous individual procurements to a broader aggregate approach, has allowed leading companies to achieve savings of 10 percent or more. A savings rate of 10 percent of total federal procurement spending would represent more than $50 billion annually. While strategic sourcing makes good sense and holds the potential to achieve significant savings, federal agencies have been slow to embrace it, even in a time of great fiscal pressure. This statement highlights GAO's recent findings related to the use of strategic sourcing across government, best practices leading companies are adopting to increase savings when acquiring services, and recent actions that could facilitate greater use of strategic sourcing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 15, 2013
Accession Number
AD1154256

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  • Cristina Chaplain

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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