Small Business and Strategic Sourcing: Lessons from Past Research and Current Data

Nancy Y. Moore ; Clifford A. Grammich ; Judith D. Mele

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: United States Department of Defense;    Military Budgets and Defense Spending;    Military Acquisition and Procurement;    Small Businesses;    Supply Chain Management;   

DOI  :  10.7249/RR410
ISBN  :  9780833082305
RP-ID  :  RR-410-OSD

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

The Department of Defense (DoD) may face challenges as it attempts to maintain its goal of spending about 23 percent of its prime-contract dollars for goods and services with small businesses and at the same time apply strategic-sourcing practices to reduce total costs and improve performance in ways that will not conflict with small-business goals while making DoD purchasing more effective and efficient. Strategic sourcing practices, for example, recommend consolidation of the supply base to reduce total costs, which can lead to fewer, larger, longer-term contracts with fewer and, often, larger suppliers.