Please before you understand that this bid requires a forum post along with 2 forum post responses below, both must be done. The budget is what it is posted, please do not try to raise the price, either you will do it or the next person will. <\/p>\n
Better Buying Power or BBP is the title of a Department of Defense document that is a blueprint of policy and advice and guidance for this week\u2019s discussion. In today\u2019s new climate of \u201cdoing more without more\u201d and the goals from the Pentagon and White House since the beginning of 2017, this topic has taken on more importance. <\/p>\n
Use the following resources plus any additional you deem necessary to answer the Forum questions.<\/p>\n
References Reading to start this discussion:<\/p>\n
Resources for this week\u2019s discussion start with \u201cWhat is Better Buying Power\u201d located at http:\/\/bbp.dau.mil<\/p>\n
Within this BBP site, go to the item listed as \u201cEliminate Unproductive Processes and Bureaucracy.\u201d Within this set of related documents provided, develop a foundation for answering this week\u2019s Forum questions. Read the documents provided. Use them to assist in answering the Forum question.<\/p>\n
Become familiar with this web site as we will visit this again in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n
Source for Forum questions: 2017 President\u2019s Executive Order Executive Order on a \u201cComprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch\u201d https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/03\/13\/presidential-executive-order-comprehensive-plan-reorganizing-executive<\/p>\n
Forum Questions:<\/p>\n
Speculate on how will the 2017 President\u2019s Executive Order Executive Order on a \u201cComprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch\u201d impact the Better Buying Power of government contractors for military equipment requirements across all the Defense Department? Should the President of the US issue any additional executive orders to impact the Better Buying Power to support the Defense Department mission support equipment needs? If not, why not? If yes, what would such an executive order include?<\/p>\n
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Your initial post should be at least 250 words. Please respond to at least 2 other students. Responses should be a minimum of 100 words and should include at least one direct question related to what that another student posted or in response to a student\u2019s posting to your initial post.<\/p>\n
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Response question 1<\/p>\n
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Normally I try to keep these short but, <\/p>\n
When looking at better buying power, figuring out exactly what the changes are expected is a part of the challenge. The President spoke here in mid September, during the speech he mentioned improving the military and working smarter. This idea has not yet filtered down to the field as of yet. A big piece of the program is to eliminate unproductive processes and bureaucracy. While this would work and is surely needed there is not any push that I have seen at my level to stop using some of the needless processes and rules. Some of the extremely low limits we have on using purchase cards to maintain equipment is a great example.<\/p>\n
When I arrived at my shop there was a large 125 foot JLG lift in the equipment lot. I found out that this piece of equipment worth over $100K had sat for over a year because of a broken hydraulic line and a control panel that needed replaced. The problem was that it could not be fixed for under $2,500 so needed to be sent out for bid. Finding companies who can work on this was not easy and without paying for an inspection to find out what exactly needed done that the government wouldn\u2019t pay for nobody would bid. Finally I worked this mess out but in the end of the day it sat for a 16 months in the weather with birds and squirrels living in it causing more damage. This type of equipment cost around $150\/Hr to have worked on and parts on $135K equipment mirror those of a $135K car. Essentially nothing can be fixed without a bid that we cannot pay to have done. This is an example of the type of total failure of reality that the over-restrictive rules cause.<\/p>\n
This ties into the DAU site from this week\u2019s lesson. Specifically number 2 control costs throughout the lifecycle, and number 6 improve tradecraft in service acquisition. To control the future costs of in this case an item, it might be a good idea to have some plan to maintain the thing down the road. The way to do this is by acquiring services, in this case an IDIQ or BPA for labor from a company who can repair and maintain this. These people who purchased this had no plan for doing a yearly safety check required or oil changes even. The worry over spending too much to repair the item without three bids caused more problems in the end. Maybe having an amount higher than the $2,500, at least something 10% of the value of what is being repaired. The amount of time and effort spent to save a small amount costs three times the amount saved and only serves to slow things down in too many cases (Better Buying Power).<\/p>\n
In place of sequestration, which is not really a budget plan but more of a political game, we could use less rules, less regulations and more trust in the acquisitions professionals the DoD has. Finding things that serve dual purposes is another area where the DoD could save. Many of the same things required for warfighting, can be used in the humanitarian missions we keep being thrown into. This even effects the weaponry we develop, in the next few decades there will likely be a requirement for more non-lethal weapons. As the military is called upon for disaster relief, civil disobedience policing and into battlefields where the media cannot prey hard enough for civilian casualties, these will be relied on more and more heavily.<\/p>\n
Referenced <\/p>\n
Better Buying Power, (n.d.). retrieved October 9, 2017, from http:\/\/bbp.dau.mil\/<\/p>\n
Response question 2<\/p>\n
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In March of 2017 an executive order was issue that mandates all federal agencies justify themselves. The order makes it so that federal agency must evaluate themselves and come up with a plan to reorganize. In reorganizing themselves they are in a way slimming down. Agencies have about six months to develop a plan and turn it in to the OMB. <\/p>\n
Once in their hands the OBM has about six months to review and propose a more robust plan for the president. Then he will take appropriate actions via, legislation or administrative action. The executive order is absolutely inline with the 2010 BBP goals of the government. If this works then the results could be a more efficient, less bureaucratic government. The implications would be felt across the DoD as there would be less redundancy and more effective response to world events.<\/p>\n
In regards to issuing more executive orders to achieve the impact to the BBP initiative is not a stet I believe should be take. There have been many presidents with several plans and executive orders to address the issue of a slow, wasteful and inefficient government but all have been unsuccessful in achieving reform. There are issues far beyond just rearranging federal agencies. While I do applauded the actions and determination of this president I feel like the real issue is the Congress. And that is too many people and dollars that would have to be addressed in order to fully see a reform in our government that will produce the goals of the BBP. <\/p>\n
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