Assessing the Acquisition Function :Understanding your Maturity

What is it?

Even the simplest acquisition requires close and intensive collaboration of personnel representing the Program/Business, Information Technology, and Contracting functions.Often these groups have different areas of expertise and speak very different languages. Bringing them together in the execution of the lifecycle acquisition processes is critical to the success of the acquisition effort. The ASSESSMENT OF THE ACQUISITION FUNCTION solution is a comprehensive study and analysis of the collaboration, communication, and coordination between these functions and a series of strategic and tactical recommendations for enhancing and optimizing this teamwork. Our assessment solution analyzes input from the Program, Technical, and Contracting participants in the acquisition process to diagnose and recommend improvements in organization structure, process design and management, collaboration, communication, and coordination, and use of tools and templates to optimize the process and outcomes of the acquisition.

Why do you do it?

If previous acquisition efforts have struggled to bring together these functions in a coordinated fashion…
If communication barriers are preventing these functions from coordinating their efforts…
If priorities and constraints on one function are not well understood by the other functions…
If processes are less efficient and effective than is required, largely due to the ineffective collaboration between these functions…

What do you get?

The output from the ASSESSMENT OF THE ACQUISITION FUNCTION includes the results of a comprehensive survey of personnel representing these three functions, the analysis of this data and the findings the data suggests, and a series of targeted strategic and tactical recommendations for improvement.