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Technology Collaboration/Shared Services - Valuing Re-use in Acquisition

Why Is This Idea Important?: Valuing re-use in acquistion has the potential to easily and quickly increase the use of common software tools and architectures.

While re-use is tracked in OMB 300 documentation re-use strategy is generally not evalutated in procurements. There are many ways to encourage re-use of technology including the use of COTS software. In recent years the application of open source COTS (open source is COTS by OMB definition) has shown promise of providing a whole new range of options for re-use as compared to proprietary COTS. If acquisition evaluation criteria regularly valued the cross-government re-use potential by using an open source approach there would be a dramatic shift in commercial response to IT initiatives.

Submitted by Peter Gallagher 2 years ago

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  1. Peter Tuttle said:

    Although this sounds good, I am afraid adoption of this suggestion will result in creating a "closed shop" in favor of IT large businesses. The government must answer the hard questions regarding how to balance cross-organizational efficiency and effectiveness against socio-economic programs, such as small business, etc. Unless Congress changes the rules, the government cannot purchase like corporate America.

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  2. The idea is that by encouraging, not mandating, the sharing of assets then the assets produced by big businesses will be shared with all, including small busineses. This will allow a level of participation and learning that has today resulted in the "closed shop" that should be discouraged. The marketplace does the best job of sharing information _IF_ the incentives are put in place. Small businesses, regardless of socio-economic status, have much to gain from an environment where assets are shared. The re-use strategies will encourage sharing.

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