Technology Collaboration/Shared Services - Valuing Re-use in Acquisition
While re-use is tracked in OMB 300 documentation re-use strategy is generally not evalutated in procurements. There are many ways to encourage ...more »
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.
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