Performance contracting (PC) has been around for many years. It has been defined as “A mechanism to implement resource efficiency improvements with minimal upfront costs. It uses savings resulting ...

Trends in home-performance contracting are shifting, and changed market behaviors are having an effect on comfort demand, energy efficiency, and HVAC contractors’ bottom lines. On the customer side of ...

Those of us following human services have heard the terms "evidence-based practice" and "differential response" bandied about a lot lately. It seems that after a lifetime of avoiding it, the human ...

The way most employee benefit brokers are paid using commissions as a percentage of revenue didn’t make a lot of sense to Tara Conger, vice president of human resources at Palmer Johnson Power Systems ...

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.

Acquisition experts from the public and private sectors told a government acquisition panel Tuesday that performance-based contracts - which include incentives for good work - need to be overhauled.

Ronald Utt is the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow. During his campaign for the presidency, George W. Bush promised to "Open federal positions involving commercial activities to ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. I have, more or less forever (actually, since I published a book on government information technology procurement back in 1990), argued ...

As the chief information officer (CIO) of the Army Contracting Command (ACC), my overarching goal is to implement the technology solutions needed to improve contracting processes across the Army, ...

Frost & Sullivan senior research analyst Narayanan Alagappan looks at the possibilities for performance contracting in the Gulf. A burgeoning population, a push for economic diversification, ...

Your performance plans are about your goals and your careers, and how willing you are to reach those goals." Employees who seek out assignments that provide them with experience, and that challenge ...