• MRAP
    Ensuring Our Nation Can Afford The Systems and Services It Acquires
    The Acquisition Community’s mission is to deliver the warfighting capabilities needed with the money available by getting better buying power for Warfighters and taxpayers.
  • BBP Initiatives Successfully Employed in Acquisition of Navy Destroyer
    Innovative acquisition strategy by Navy resulted in $298 million in cost savings across three ships and established the conditions for the
    follow-on FY13-17 multi-year procurement for DDG 51 class ships while sustaining the shipbuilding industrial base.

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  • PEO Ammo
    PEO Ammunition Business Model Provides Small Business with Increased Contracting Opportunities
    Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems team developed innovative acquisition strategy that effectively seeks out and utilizes small businesses innovation and rapid response while substantially cutting delivery order award cycle times and costs.

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  • Hawkeye
    Hawkeye Achieves Economical Production Rates
    The Navy's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program and the Air Force’s Small Diameter Bomb II program are recent examples where the Department
    ensured cost savings by implementing economical production rates.

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  • By remaining focused on realistic requirements and incentivizing
    industry, a United States Special Operations Command team has
    developed better first-response casualty evacuation and treatment capabilities for wounded Warfighters.

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    Joint Service Team’s Focus on Requirements Yields Life-saving
    Capabilities
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What Is Better Buying Power?

 

DoD’s Mandate To Do More Without More

Better Buying Power (BBP) is the implementation of best practices to strengthen the Defense Department's buying power, improve industry productivity, and provide an affordable, value-added military capability to the Warfighter.  Launched in 2010, BBP encompasses a set of fundamental acquisition principles to achieve greater efficiencies through affordability, cost control, elimination of unproductive processes and bureaucracy, and promotion of competition. BBP initiatives also incentivize productivity and innovation in industry and Government, and improve tradecraft in the acquisition of services.

BBP Focus Areas BBP Focus Areas

 

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Conducting a program at a cost constrained by the maximum resources the Department can allocate for a capability. These resources include funding, schedule and manpower.

 

The ability to understand and control future costs from a program’s inception is critical to achieving affordability requirements.

 

Reward contractors for successful supply chain and indirect expense management.

 

Unnecessary and low-value added processes and document requirements are a significant drag on acquisition productivity and must be aggressively identified and eliminated.

 

Real competition is the single most powerful tool available to the Department to drive productivity.

 

The substantial amount of money spent on contract support services demands a management structure to strategically source these goods and services.

 

It is the duty of the acquisition workforce to conduct itself with excellence, responsibility, integrity and accountability.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
Wave Items of Interest


April 30, 2013

 

Better Buying Power 2.0 implementation memo and video now available

 

Video of USD(AT&L) The Honorable Frank Kendall’s presentation and Q&A session on Better Buying Power 2.0 implementation is now available in the DAU Media Library. Mr. Kendall met with an audience of acquisition professionals following the release of the Better Buying Power 2.0 implementation memorandum to further explain the BBPi 2.0 tenets.

 

April 24, 2013

 

Memorandum on the Implementation of Better Buying Power 2.0 Released

 

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Mr.Frank Kendall released a memorandum on the implementation of Better Buying Power 2.0 April 24. The memo reiterated the seven tenets of the BBP initiative and encouraged workforce members to apply their principles to future acquisition programs in order to achieve greater efficiency and productivity in defense spending.

 

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April 9, 2013

 

Acquisition Hot Topic Training Forum theme: "Better Buying Power Training to Meet Defense Acquisition Challenges"

 

The Defense Acquisition University (DAU) will provide training and perspectives on implementing Better Buying Power (BBP) 2.0 initiatives at its annual Acquisition Hot Topic Training Forum on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at Fort Belvoir.

 

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January 29, 2013

 

Army Advances Better Buying Power

 

The U.S. Army has achieved significant cost savings and cost avoidance as result of its implementation of Better Buying Power.

 

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November 13, 2012

 

Better Buying Power 2.0: Continuing the Pursuit for Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending

 

Memorandum from Under Secretary of Defense
for AT&L Frank Kendall introducing a preliminary version of Better Buying Power 2.0.

 

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Ask a BBP Question

 


Ask A Professor (AAP) is a Department of

Defense resource for asking acquisition and

logistics questions concerning policies and

practices.

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