Letter from the President
Performance Based Acquisition has been around for several decades. Its renewed emphasis as a tool to improve performance and reduce cost and risk on Federal procurements provides the opportunity to better accomplish your mission. I've been involved in Federal acquisitions for more than several decades. There are many excellent tools available to help guide the development of PBA packages such as the Seven Steps to Performance-Based Services Acquisition. Unfortunately, expending the effort to select and then learn a tool or methodology and only getting to apply it once every 5 years, results in frustration and wasted effort for many members of the acquisition team. As the Seven Steps project rightly concluded, "The very nature of performance-based contracting limits the chances that you will find the "perfect" template, sample, or example to meet your needs. Each requirement has its unique aspects, and each program has its unique objectives, constraints, and intended results." We provide facilitation of the Contracts/Program Office interface.
My passion is to improve the information flow and communications between the professionals in Government procurement and their industry counterparts, whether they are the contracts personnel or the program personnel. My vision is an RFP that clearly communicates the requirements, does not engender any questions from the bidders, produces proposals that are straightforward and easy for the source selection team to evaluate and ultimately results in meeting the objective of the procurement at least cost.
The OMB goal for FY2008 of 50% performance based contracts on service contracts of over $25,000 provides the impetus to ensure that the PBA method gets used. "What gets measured gets done." Many agencies are still working to achieve their agency level goals and many contract and program personnel are frustrated by the process and at the same time overcommitted.
Federal Services, Inc. attacks the challenge one procurement at a time. We provide the PBA expertise and the expository and technical writing expertise. You concentrate on delivering your mission and providing the subject matter expertise. Together we ensure the schedule is met and your requirements are fulfilled.
With Federal Services, Inc., there is no Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) issue. We don't bid programs outside of PBA support to the Government.
We are here to help with any or all parts of the acquisition. Please call and discuss your requirements.
Thanks
Dick Blom, PMP
President
Federal Services, Inc.
