This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author.
On Oct. 7, 2016, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a draft Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular, Implementing Category Management for Common Goods and Services. The circular sought to establish “key principles, and strategies and policies, roles and responsibilities, and metrics to measure success” for category management (CM) across the government. Best-in-class criteria for contracts was one of the key policies set forth in the circular.
Source: Best-in-class contracts: Where is the classroom? – FederalNewsRadio.com
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