Governments often view performance-based contracting as a north star. But while paying for performance can streamline incentives for public works or technology, it can backfire for social services.

Under a performance based contracting program, health plans would determine annual performance payments to physician groups based both on the total cost of care and quality outcomes for each group ...

Increased federal reliance on performance-based contracting won't cure all the problems that often plague big government information technology projects, participants in a panel discussion said ...

NCI members and guests came to Summit 2013 with the goal of learning how to achieve sustainable double-digit net profits and were excited to discover the solution: NCI’s ground-breaking 4-Dimensional ...

Here's the 30-second elevator speech describing performance-based contracting: "Tell the contractor the result you want, not how to do the work, and then be sure you can measure whether that ...

Suppliers across the country are getting a chance to participate in large weapons programs like the Joint Strike Fighter as a result of the changes brought about by performance-based contracting ...

Traditional contracting is primarily transactional, rewarding contractors when deliveries are made or certain process milestones are met. Performance-Based Logistic (PBL) contracting seeks to base ...

I asked him what he was up to lately. He said he has been working with various program offices in the Defense Department on performance-based contracting. When I asked him to tell me about some of ...

Performance-based contracting has been widely accepted as a best practice for years, and it’s become standard practice in the nation’s biggest cities. New York, Los Angeles and Seattle ...

(U.S. Navy photo by Bobby Cummings) The General Services Administration’s latest solicitation for drone services is a tool intended to return government to performance-based contracting, said ...