by Chantal Symonette | Feb 17, 2022 | Insights
Two essential documents used to prepare in the pre-award stage are the acquisition strategy and acquisition plan. These documents prevent issues like schedule and scope creep. The acquisition strategy is a comprehensive plan that identifies and describes the...
by Leanne Reisz | Aug 12, 2021 | Insights
Introduction & Classification of Best-in-Class In 2014, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a memo regarding a new strategic mission for federal requirements. The primary theme of the memo was ‘best value over lowest price,’ citing category...
by Brittney Bookout | Jul 27, 2021 | Insights
Modular contracting is an acquisition strategy in which large, complex projects are broken up into multiple, tightly scoped procurements to implement technology systems in successive, interoperable increments. Modular contracting is intended to reduce program risk...
by Ben Foley | Jul 23, 2021 | Insights
Avoiding all risk is a near impossibility given the complex business environments many of our largest Federal agencies operate in. This is especially true in the acquisition space where both internal and external demands can destabilize pre-planned processes. Rather...
by Ben Foley | Jul 23, 2021 | Insights
In 1999, then-Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki announced the U.S. Army Future Combat System (FCS). The FCS was intended to be usher in a new age of mobile armor, and in May 2003 the Department of Defense awarded an almost $15 billion contract for the design...