1.8 Key Features (Revised
09/1999)
The following are key features of the Acquisition Management System:
| Lifecycle Acquisition Management Policy
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- Establishes a lifecycle partnership between users and providers so final products and
services are what users/customers want and need.
- Creates a seamless lifecycle acquisition management process that extends from mission
analysis to product disposal.
- Explores advanced technology opportunities and non-traditional operational concepts in
full partnership between providers and users/customers.
- Provides a framework for evolutionary product development so the upgrade of complex
systems can be faster and cheaper.
- Stresses preference for commercial and nondevelopmental solutions to mission needs.
- Streamlines policy so effort and resources are focused on products.
- Establishes a rigorous configuration control process for improving the Acquisition
Management System continuously.
- Places resource decisionmaking at the Corporate level and program decisionmaking with
Integrated Product Teams to increase the pace of doing business and stabilize program
execution.
- Establishes a strong capability for mission analysis that looks forward in time to
identify and prioritize needs before they become operational problems.
- Establishes a strong capability for investment analysis that ensures rigorous and
impartial treatment of alternative strategies for satisfying mission need, while also
achieving "buy-in" from the users who must live with the solution and from the
providers who deliver it.
- Unifies Acquisition Management System processes with agency planning, programming, and
budgeting; the NAS Architecture; and long-range strategic planning.
- Institutes continuous process improvement
throughout the agency using periodic comparison of FAA processes to
best practices, including those embodied in the FAA integrated
Capability Maturity Model
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| Procurement Policy |
- Establishes competition for products and services among two or more sources as the
preferred method of source selection.
- Strives to provide small businesses with attainable and reasonable opportunities to
participate as contractors and subcontractors.
- Enables tailoring of processes and guidance to meet the goals of each requirement.
- Encourages industry participation in the development of requirements and solutions
throughout the lifecycle acquisition management process.
- Establishes lists of qualified vendors for products and services based on their
capabilities and past performance.
- Eliminates the requirement for formal solicitation and allows screening to narrow
offerors to only those likely to receive an award based on capabilities and past
performance.
- Delegates source selection responsibility, authority, and accountability to the
Integrated Product Team.
- Resolves protests and contract disputes at the agency level through the FAA Dispute
Resolution System.
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