94-30749. Performance-Based Contracting for Services

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

Office of Federal Procurement Policy

 

Performance-Based Contracting for Services

AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB), Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).

ACTION: OFPP is requesting information on training courses or programs 
with regard to the development of performance-based statements of work 
and quality assurance surveillance plans.

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BACKGROUND: A major contract reform initiative of OFPP is to reform the 
manner by which the government contracts for services by introducing 
performance-based contracting methods. Performance-based contracting 
methods include statements of work comprised of objective, measureable 
performance standards; quality assurance plans and incentives based on 
the statement of work criteria; and selection procedures which include 
publishing draft solicitations for comment.
    To stimulate the government's conversion to performance-based 
service contracting, OFPP developed a governmentwide project which 
relies on voluntary pledges by individual agencies to convert specified 
contracts for services to performance-based contracting methods. 
Twenty-six agencies have pledged to convert 87 contracts, with an 
estimated value of $1.2 billion, to this method of contracting. The 
services covered by these contracts range from such basic requirements 
as janitorial and guard services to computer maintenance and systems 
engineering. They will be converted to performance-based contracting as 
the current contracts expire over the next 14 months.

COMMENTS: OFPP recognizes that development of performance-based 
statements of work and quality assurance plans will require extensive 
training of program and procurement personnel. As a first step, the 
agencies must be made aware of training opportunities. We request that 
government agencies and commercial vendors provide us information on 
any training courses or programs that are currently available on 
development of performance work statements and quality assurance plans. 
Please provide us with the following information: (1) The name of the 
government agency or commercial vendor offering the training, (2) the 
name of the course of program, (3) a general description of the course 
which can include an outline or syllabus, (4) the name of a point of 
contact, (5) the point of contact's telephone number, and (6) names and 
phone numbers of several references.
    OFPP will review and consolidate this information and provide it to 
the specific agency points of contact for the 26 agencies who are 
participating in this pilot effort for their information and potential 
use.

DATES: Comments in response to this Federal Register notice should be 
received at OFPP by close of business December 28, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to the OFPP, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 9001, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, 
Attention: Stanley Kaufman or Linda Mesaros.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stanley Kaufman at 202-395-6810 or Linda Mesaros at 202-395-4821.
Steven Kelman,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 94-30749 Filed 12-13-94; 8:45 am]
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