Sourcing in the Air Force: An Optimization Approach

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) annually procures billions of dollars worth of systems, supplies, and services in support of the national military strategy. Faced with budget cuts and other resource constraints, the DoD must monitor its procurement process to ensure a continuous flow of critical supplies and services. One aspect of current transformation in DoD is the use of a strategic sourcing approach for the procurement of installation-level services. Using the Air Force's strategic sourcing process as our context, we develop an optimization model for selecting a set of bids among multiple offerors? proposals for installation services. The selection achieves the most favorable objective based on balancing the confidence performance level in past performance of the offerors and the cost to the Air Force. The research findings based on a realistic scenario demonstrate improvements in both overall performance and cost than the current process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA529455

Entities

People

  • Aruna U. Apte
  • Javier Salmeron
  • Rene G. Rendon

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Logistics
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Public Policy
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • United States

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