Download Free Analysis Of Air Force Pricing In Negotiated Procurement Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Analysis Of Air Force Pricing In Negotiated Procurement and write the review.

The problem of cost growth in major weapon system acquisition programs has plagued the Department of Defense for several decades. This report examines the Air Force experience with should-cost reviews--a special form of contract cost analysis intended to identify contractor inefficiencies and lower costs to the government--and options for enhancing the Air Force's capability to conduct such reviews.
The CPRG is a five-volume set covering topics such as price analysis, quantitative techniques, cost analysis, advanced issues in contract pricing, and negotiations. The Contract Pricing Reference Guides are a set of reference volumes that were developed jointly by the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). The Guides are now maintained by the Office of the Deputy Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy for Cost, Pricing, and Finance. The Guides were developed to provide instruction and professional guidance for contracting personnel. They provide detailed discussion and examples applying pricing policies to pricing problems. This book contains all five Volumes: Volume 1 - Price Analysis Volume 2 - Quantitative Techniques for Contract Pricing Volume 3 - Cost Analysis Volume 4 - Advanced Issues in Contract Pricing Volume 5 - Negotiation Techniques Download Kindle eBook FREE when you buy this book for a limited time only. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1⁄2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a SDVOSB. If you like the service we provide, please leave positive review on Amazon.com. Without positive feedback from the community, we may discontinue the service and y'all can go back to printing these books manually yourselves. Other books we publish: GAO Green Book - Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government GAO Yellow Book - Government Auditing Standards GAO Financial Audit Manual DoD 7000.14 - R Financial Management Regulation Defense Acquisition Guidebook (Chapters 1 - 10) Federal Acquisition Regulation - Complete Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation - Complete OMB No. A-123 - Management's Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control OMB A-130 & Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual (FISCAM) GAO Technology Readiness Assessment Guide GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide GAO Schedule Assessment Guide OPM CSRS and FERS Handbook
This briefing summarizes research on how the Air Force might use an analysis of its spending to develop better supply strategies, improve its relationships with suppliers, and better manage its supply base. Best practices offer many ways by which the Air Force can improve performance and save money. Such techniques include consolidating multiple contracts with existing providers, selecting the best providers and offering them longer contracts with broader scopes of goods and services, and working with selected strategic partners to improve quality, responsiveness, reliability, and cost. There are many challenges to conducting an Air Force-wide spend analysis, primarily the lack of detailed, centralized data on all expenditures as well as questions about data quality for those data that are available. Nevertheless, the data that do exist point to many prospective sources of savings and performance improvements. The authors analyze the most complete centralized source available on Air Force expenditures, known as DD350 data. Transactions in the DD350 data constitute 96 percent of all Air Force contract dollars spent directly. Among the actions that the Air Force might wish to take are: consolidation of a large number of contracts with similar or the same supplier; grouping contractor ID codes having multiple contracts with the Air Force and many purchase office codes associated with the same contractor, so that the Air Force does not have to pay for the contractor's repetitive bidding and contract administration costs; examining contracts for goods or services available from only one supplier, which gives the Air Force only limited opportunities to gain leverage over such suppliers. Conducting a detailed Air Force spend analysis would require information on the needs, preferences, and priorities of commodity users not available in the DD350 data. Because the Air Force needs to balance prospective savings, performance improvements, risks, socioeconomic and other goals, and other regulations not always present in the private sector, not all best commercial practices may be appropriate for it.
The following conclusions were drawn regarding contract negotiations: (1) The existence of effective competition is the deciding factor as to whether or not cost data are required. However - there are wide variations of opinion in both government and industry as to what criteria constitutes effective competition; (2) Similarly, there are wide variations of opinion in government and industry as to what criteria determines whether an item is proprietary, commercial or catalogue; (3) There has been a definite trend by industry to categorize an increasing number of products as catalogue items for the sole purpose of evading submission of cost data under the pretext that a catalogued item is competitive; and (4) Currently, the technique most commonly used by Air Force Procurement personnel for establishing realistic prices is analysis of detailed supporting cost data. (Author).