The Performance Based Services Acquisition (PBSA) Action Workshop assists an acquisition team in developing an actual performance-based solicitation. The PBSA Action Workshop integrates the team’s multifunctional expertise through group processes that result in key solicitation documents that will meet customer and corporate goals. The workshop produces solid drafts of the --

• Performance Work Statement (PWS)

• Performance Requirements Summary (PRS)— summary of requirements, standards, assessment methods.

Generally, the PBSA Action Workshop is a three day event.  Because the Action Workshop is a functionally integrated, team-based workshop individual participants are prescreened, and selected to ensure that multifunctional diversity in the workshop is sufficient for effective use of small group exercises. All participants are actively engaged throughout the process.  

Individual and organizational learning is reinforced throughout the workshop to produce a solicitation that includes performance requirements, performance standards, acceptable quality/service levels, a performance assessment plan for assuring required performance, any applicable incentives, and an appropriate contract type.  PBSA Action Workshop Modules include:

• Describing Acquisition Objectives.

• Requirements Analysis

• Developing Performance Requirements

• Identifying Performance Standards

• Identifying Performance Assessment Measures

• Developing Performance Incentives

The PBSA Action Workshop is tightly structured and targeted to the education and training  needs of the organization’s workforce, its experience with services acquisition, and its level of success with previous performance-based acquisitions. Sterling Heritage developed this workshop to provide acquisition professionals with the tools necessary for broad success with performance-based acquisitions in today’s dynamic environment. The goal is both a successful performance-based acquisition and a well-trained workforce with the ability and tools to continually improve the organization’s acquisitions. 

Sterling Heritage PBSA Action Workshops have successfully assisted more than fifty integrated solutions teams with performance based services acquisitions.

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