(This blog post is part of a multi-week series reviewing data and trends from GSA’s IT acquisition vehicles for FY15. Read previous posts at http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/technology/)
Time to make our New Year’s resolutions for 2016!
In my last 13 blog posts, we looked at government IT trends for FY15 and what might be ahead in FY16 technology acquisitions for telecommunications, cloud, cybersecurity, mobility/wireless, hardware, software, and small business. We’ve got a good sense of the technology trends.
But how we go about buying the technology is equally important. I recommend these New Year’s resolutions:
- Use existing government-wide contracts, like those from GSA and other agencies, instead of new and open market contracts.
- Each time you need IT or telecommunications products, services, or solutions, check out the latest GSA offerings, which we continuously enhance.
- Use the Acquisition Gateway for market research, to link to existing contracts that offer the IT solution you’re looking for, and to stay informed on best practices.
- Collaborate across agencies every step of the way.
We can save lots of taxpayer dollars and achieve better acquisition and operational efficiencies with this resolution.
For more information about who we are and what we do, check out the slide presentation posted below.
And be sure to follow and engage us on Twitter @GSA_ITS and on the ITS LinkedIn page we launched last year.
This presentation covers ways to improve the acquisition process for customer agencies, by leveraging existing contracts, using category management and the acquisition gateway, and reducing IT acquisition duplication and costs.
Government IT Buying New Years Resolutions: To Improve What and How You Buy (PDF, 125 KB)