Going the Distance: Leveraging the Benefits of Competition Throughout the Life of a Program.

摘要

The Department of Defense (DoD) strives to foster competition; however, like many government agencies, the DoD tends to view competition as occurring only during the contracting process, rather than as a dynamic tool for achieving success over the life of a program. Most DoD programs today award development and production contracts to a single prime contractor or contractor team. Using this single-provider approach, the DoD fails to maintain 'continuous life-cycle competition' -- the use of competition to motivate contractor performance throughout the life of a program.