Drives cost savings

Strategic Focus - Key Tenets:

• Strategic Focus - Key Tenets:

• “Long Term View” aimed at gaining a sense of the market (surveillance)

• Team participation is key

• Requiring Activity
• Program Manager
• Contracting Officer
• User/Customer
• Others, as appropriate

• Supports trade-off decisions between alternatives

• Lays the foundation for more focused market investigation -Tactical Market Research

Tactical Focus - Key Tenets:

• Tactical Focus - Key Tenets:

• Tailored & detailed “Market Investigation” aimed at a specific procurement action

• Timing, depth, extent of investigation depends on the complexity of the action.

• Team participation is still the key to success

• Requiring Activity
• Program Manager
• Contracting Officer
• User/Customer
• Others, as appropriate
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