Documents/HHS2003/8: Management Excellence/8.3: Competitive Sourcing

8.3: Competitive Sourcing

Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of competitive sourcing

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How We Will Accomplish Our Objective - Require that Agencies set progressive targets for competitive sourcing of commercial activities each year, which align with identified areas for management improvement. - Ensure that all resulting contracts with both public and private entities are “performance based” and provide a process for vigorous contract monitoring and administration. - Produce a competitive sourcing plan, and require each HHS Agency to produce a plan, which studies a progressive percentage of commercial activities performed by Departmental staff. - Use competitive sourcing information generated to identify new performance efficiencies and institute ongoing, continuous improvement. - Ensure that competitive sourcing targets are aligned with HHS workforce restructuring plans, and conduct studies that examine each area of operations for cost comparison where efficiencies would be gained.

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