Services Acquisition in the Department of Defense: Analysis of Operational and Performance Data to Identify Drivers of Success
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Apte, Uday
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2015-03
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WDSI
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Over the last few decades, services acquisition in the Department of Defense (DoD) has continued to increase in terms of both scope of services acquired and the dollars obligated, with the current annual spending reaching over $200 billion. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), the poor management of service contracts has undermined the government’s ability to obtain a good value for the money spent and has contributed to the GAO’s decision to designate management of services contracts as a high-risk area for the Department of Defense (DoD). The DoD has responded to these problems by improving services acquisition in several different ways, but even with these improvements, services acquisition still has problems in the areas of procurement planning, source selection, and contract administration.
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Presented at Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI 2015) conference March 31- April 3, 2015
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Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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1 p.
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Apte, Uday. Services acquisition in the Department of Defense: Analysis of operational and performance data to identify drivers of success. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute. Western Decision Sciences Institute. 2015.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.