As your mission grows and you juggle the resources needed to support your agency, rely on us to help you navigate the changing acquisition landscape, including direct acquisition support to related program/project management organizations and contracting offices.

Our experts provide dozens of government clients with day-to-day support throughout the acquisition lifecycle. From the identification of program need to the contract's closeout, our expertise supports requirements generation, contract creation and administration, and project planning and execution in order to minimize financial expenditures, maximize operational performance, and control risk.

Why over-specify a solution in procurement when what you are really seeking is an outcome? ASI pioneered performance-based acquisition (PBA). In fact, our senior staff literally wrote the book on PBA, which differs from traditional means of contracting in that acquisition is structured around outcomes, rather than compliance or project completion.

Following our Seven Steps to Performance-Based Acquisition™, our consultants help agencies realize results through effective partnerships. From the contracting office to the program office, we work with clients to provide insight gained from years of experience in government acquisition.

Our experts have supported the successful execution of major, mission-critical PBAs in agencies across government. We've also trained more than 8,000 federal acquisition professionals on life-cycle PBA for superior mission outcomes.

"Institutionalizing Performance-Based Acquisition: An Agency Guide to Bridging the Gap between the Concept and Practice of PBA" "A New Approach to Performance-Based Acquisition: Three Phases to Success" (Contract Management, May 2010)

It's a new day in Information technology (IT) acquisition. What's out: mega-sized projects that take 5-10 years to get to initial operating capability. What's in: Agile development, focused on delivering functionality in smaller increments, more quickly and cheaply. Agile makes sense - but in the government, how do you put in place an acquisition architecture to support it?

"Rapid IT Acquisition: A New Model for Acquiring Government IT" Advisory

It's no longer "business as usual" for federal procurement organizations. The past two decades have witnessed sobering trends including increased workloads, decreased professional staff, complex regulatory guidance, and increased size, scale, cost, and impact of mission-critical acquisitions.

Enterprise spend management is the key to transforming federal acquisition into an efficient, effective function. This can be achieved through a specific focus on people, processes, and technology. It is a solution to significantly improve federal acquisition processes and achieve increased transparency, accuracy, responsiveness, and quality of outcomes.

In addition, strategic sourcing can streamline processes such as evaluating current and potential sourcing opportunities and relationships, assessing their value and relevance according to long-term business goals, and formulating action plans and processes for critical commodities or supply networks. This includes such activities as spend analysis, market assessment, total cost analysis, and requirement consolidation.

"Enterprise Spend Management: Bringing Efficiency and Effectiveness to Federal Acquisition" Advisory

The Networx contracts deliver next-generation telecommunication services to federal agencies. The savings generated by migrations to Networx can be significant, but the migrations themselves are incredibly complex.

ASI has been a valued partner to several agencies in their Networx transitions, beginning even before the first Networx contracts were awarded, and we have experience in all phases of Networx migration.

We've faced and overcome the challenges these transitions present, and we have a proven record of success in developing and refining best practices. Since the transition to Networx will be a one-time experience for agencies, rely on ASI as your partner to handle the surge effort. Our proven methodology and specialized NetworxModeler(TM) cost/pricing toolset can help your agency transition quickly - ensuring minimal disruption to existing operations and maximum savings.