Category management is an effective business practice aimed at reducing duplication in contracting, improving the use of government purchasing power, and promoting the use of first-rate government solutions. Historically, the vast majority of the common agency`s needs – such as information technology, professional services, medical care, human capital, security, security, transportation and logistics – have been acquired in a disintegated manner, leading to an under-optimization of the government`s purchasing power and a decline in the federal government`s market profile. Category management allows agencies to move from purchasing and price management to thousands of purchasing units and manage entire categories of common expenses with collaborative decision-making. As a result, the institutionalization of category management, as the primary way to acquire and manage annual expenditures of approximately $270 billion in public goods and services by all corporate agencies, will help taxpayers make better use of their acquisition investments in their day-to-day needs and, equally importantly, will allow contract offices to pay more attention to critical acquisitions. A GSA BPA calendar is an agreement reached by a state purchaser with a Schedule contractor to meet the repetitive needs of supplies or services (FAR 8.405-3). BPAs allow the contractor and buyer to meet recurring needs taking into account the specific requirements of the customer, while the buyer`s full purchasing power is used by using quantity discounts, saving administrative time and reducing red tape. EPS is advantageous for: (ii) orders that exceed the micro-purchase acquisition threshold, but do not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. The DOD 8470.01E Directive, approved by the Deputy Minister of Defence and entered into force on 6 September 2018, the Minister of the Navy announced that the Minister of the Navy would serve as DoD`s Executive Officer (EA) for the commercial management of Core Enterprise Technology Agreements (CetAs) software products, appointed by the Defense Business Council (DBC) to support Information Technology Management (ITCM) and the DoD Enterprise Software Initiative, in accordance with DoD 5101.1. Policy measures will also be defined and responsibilities will be assigned for the implementation of CETA in the ESI. Key agreements consist of agreements that are most in demand. (A) The ordering activity must provide any multiple BPA premium holder with a fair opportunity to consider for any orders exceeding the small acquisition threshold, but not to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, unless one of the exceptions at point 8.405-6 (a) (1) (i) is subject to orders for or below the micro purchase threshold. The ordering activity may place orders with or below the micro-purchase threshold with any BPA holder who is able to meet the Agency`s requirements. The ordering business should endeavour to distribute these orders among EPS holders.
The appointment and transition of existing order contracts to CETA is an ongoing process. As a result, customers must continue to order under DoD DFARS 208.74 on current ESI agreements until the process is complete for each agreement. If you have any questions or concerns, please send them via our Ask an Expert page under www.esi.mil/AskAnExpert.aspx. Once a BPA is in place, buyers should always seek competition for purchases over $2500. Buyers can meet this requirement by contacting at least three borrowers to receive offers. BPA suppliers ideal for BPA purchases are those who have: The establishment of BPAs BPAs can be set up with: (1) more than one supplier for supplies or services of the same type, in order to offer maximum competition passable; (2) a single business in which a large number of individual purchases are likely to be made over a period of time, occasionally or below the simplified acquisition threshold; or (3) GSA Federal Supply Schedule supplier (for more information, see a future article by Sér