2.C: Procurement
Achieve savings, improve quality and increase customer satisfaction in agency procurements. Other Information:
Relationship to Annual Performance Goals: OMB's long term goal is a Federal procurement system comparable to those of high
performing commercial enterprises. OMB will identify annual goals that gauge OMB's success in promoting establishment of a
high performing procurement system in which agencies pay less for products and services, increase the value received for the
dollars spent, and ultimately improve the support acquisition provides to government programs. Means and Strategies: To achieve
this goal, OMB will work with agencies to facilitate and promote agency use of commercial buying strategies and practices.
In doing so, OMB will work with the National Performance Review in maximizing the use of discretion and business judgment
by contracting officials and minimizing rule-based procedures to permit negotiation of the most advantageous agreements. OMB
will also collaborate with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council, the Federal Procurement Council, and front-line
contracting professionals to accomplish these goals. Specifically, to increase agency use of commercial buying strategies
and processes, OMB will work with these groups to secure the discretion under applicable laws and regulations necessary to
employ commercial buying practices and will issue appropriate policy guidance. For example, in seeking to make consideration
of past performance the norm in source selection, OMB will work with the FAR Council to complete necessary regulatory revisions
and will publish a revised best practices document. In addition, OMB will encourage and monitor agency progress in adopting
reforms with high potential for improving acquisition. For example, OMB will obtain, review, and conduct follow-up on agency
plans to convert services contracts to performance-based ones. And to facilitate conversion, OMB will work with agencies to
draft model contract documents. External Factors: These efforts cannot succeed without the assistance of the agencies. In
particular, the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
as members of the FAR Council and the largest buying and procurement training entities, as well as other major procuring agencies,
have a critical role in institutionalizing these reforms.
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