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WASHINGTON – Federal employees who have excelled in the area of performance-based contracting will be recognized later this spring with an award program sponsored by The Performance Institute and the General Services Administration. The Excellence in Performance-Based Service Acquisition Award of $2,500 will be awarded to a federal employee or group of federal employees that showed leadership and innovation in crafting a successful performance-based contract in either 2002 or 2003. Nominations will be accepted through April 9 and the winner will be named at the General Services Administration’s annual Federal Acquisition Conference & Exposition in Washington, D.C. on June 2-3. This is the first time The Performance Institute and GSA have teamed up to recognize federal employees in this capacity. “Employing performance-based contracts is a proven strategy for eliciting the best results from contractors,” said Carl DeMaio, president of The Performance Institute. “The success of those contracts relies heavily on the ingenuity of the federal managers who administer them, so it’s important that we recognize and reward the best and brightest.” Nominees must demonstrate how the acquisition addressed the performance-based contracting elements in Federal Acquisition Regulations 37.6 as well as the Seven Steps to Performance-Based Services Acquisition guide; the role the nominee played in ensuring the successful implementation of a performance-based approach; and how the performance-based approach lowered costs or prices, and/or improved the quality of contractor performance or required less contract oversight. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges consisting of several government acquisition experts including Carl DeMaio, president of The Performance Institute; David Drabkin, deputy administrator for acquisition policy at GSA; Deidre Lee, director of the defense procurement and acquisition policy at GSA; Allan Burman, president of Jefferson Solutions and former administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, as well as other public and private sector officials. More information about the application process can be found online at: www.excellenceinacquisition.org. #
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