Summary description: The yearbook highlights how procurement teams across DHS, supported by Acquisition Innovation Advocates and PIL coaches, are building on procurement innovation successes and finding new ways to efficiently deliver effective solutions for to fulfill the DHS mission of protecting our homeland. The publication includes new innovations such as Discovery and Experience via Questions, new tools such as the Periodic Table of Acquisition Innovation Elements, and successful strategies from procurement teams completing a PIL project in Fiscal Year 2019.

Summary description: Government executives identified streamlining federal acquisition processes as essential to achieve the IT Modernization goal in the President’s Management Agenda. In response, ACT-IAC’s Institute for Innovation launched a project with guidance provided by OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy. A team of government and industry volunteers interviewed government acquisition professionals to collect examples of innovative acquisition practices, designed a web platform, and populated it with the information collected.

Publication of Volume 3 of the Final Report marks the culmination of more than 2 years of stakeholder engagement and research aimed at streamlining DoD’s acquisition process. In the Supplement to the Section 809 Panel Interim Report, published in May 2017, the panel affirmed that meeting the agency mission should be the primary goal of DoD acquisition.

Half of the federal government mission is met through acquisition. The opportunity to benefit from transformational thinking will benefit all agencies, industry, and especially the taxpayer.  This guide encapsulates transformational acquisition best practices. The framework provided in this guide brings a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and holistic approach to getting better mission outcomes at a fair price through acquisitions.