Best Practices: Improved Knowledge of DOD Service Contracts Could Reveal Significant Savings

Abstract

Department of Defense (DOD) spending on service contracts approaches $100 billion annually, but DOD's management of services procurement is inefficient and ineffective and the dollars are not always well spent. Recent legislation requires DOD to improve procurement practices to achieve savings. Many private companies changed management practices based on analyzing spending patterns and coordinating procurement in order to achieve major savings. This report evaluates five companies' best practices and their conduct and use of "spend analysis" and the extent that DOD can pursue similar practices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 09, 2003
Accession Number
AD1158074

Entities

People

  • Bob Swierczek
  • Carolyn Kirby
  • Cordell Smith
  • Dorothy Yee
  • Jack L. Jr Brock
  • Lily Chin
  • Nicole Shivers
  • Ralph Dawn
  • Ralph White
  • Shannon Simpson

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • National Governments
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • Small Business

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.