More than ten years after the federal government officially pledged performance-based contracting as an efficient means of procurement, agencies and the private sector alike still wrestle with the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Government Printing Office has awarded a contract to Harris, an international communications and information technology company, to ...

A performance-based contract allows building owners to pay for facility improvements through guaranteed costs savings they will achieve with those improvements. This type of contract is particularly ...

No one doubts that federal officials will continue to encourage performance-based contracting in the coming year. But some emerging success stories could give agency officials guidance about using ...

Consensus holds that outcome-based contracting is the smart way to go, especially when requirements are well-defined and the customer has a clear vision of its goal. But outcome-based contracting is ...

The Defense Department says it will take steps to better manage its performance-based contracts following a report by the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) calling for reforms of such deals.

The General Services Administration is failing to properly manage performance-based service contracts while struggling to resolve longstanding contract administration challenges, according to an ...