DoD EC Trends
DOD Experiencing Explosive Growth
- Secretary Cohen’s Recent Established Goal:
GOAL 3: Simplify purchasing and payment through the use of purchase card transactions for 90% of all DoD micro-purchases while reengineering the processes for requisitioning, funding and ordering.
Notes:
Goal #3 of Secretary’s Cohen’s 12 Goals presented to the Vice President with the establishment of the DoD Acquisition Reinvention Impact Center see: http://www.acq.osd.mil/nprric/ric.htm
“the Department's three-year acquisition goals as a designated National Performance Review Reinvention Impact Center (RIC). Our initiatives cover the three main areas contained in the Blair House Papers and are intended, as well, to serve as input to our
Secretary Cohen’s Memo to VP Gore
November 1997, Secretary Cohen released the “Defense Reform Initiative” see: http://www.defenselink.mil/ then go to DRI: http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/dodreform/ in this report the Secretary set a goal of using purchase cards for 90% of the eligible pu
In FY 97 - 97% of the AF’s purchases were below $25,000 accounting however, for only of 5% of our dollars obligated. As of April 1997, we changed our purchase card policy to allow ordering from pre-priced contracts (GSA/DLA!) up to $25,000. Here at 1st