Looking at the big picture of PBSA

The Procurement Round Table is a group of procurement folks who meet to try to make sense of federal contracting and how to make it better. Earlier this year, this group issued a white paper to the acquisition advisory panel, working on improving services acquisition.

The paper introduced the concept of "relational contracting" for discussion purposes. The other purpose of the paper is to help explain why services contracting is supposed to be performance-based but often is performance based in name only.

Looking at the members of the Round Table and the members of the AAP, there is a lot of overlap. Maybe they are just trying to encourage discussion amongst the rest of us.

So...what do you think?

Thanks to Mary Paige for pointing this white paper out to me.