Origin
Currently, there is over $171 billion in goods and services procured each year at the DoD. However, the DoD has limited insight into what it buys and from whom it buys at the enterprise level. Each military service and agency procures goods and services across the Department, with little coordination between procurement offices that are purchasing the same or similar services. In addition, the existing spend information resides in numerous disparate applications located throughout the Department.

The DON Material Establishment Study Identified "scalable" services spend and the possibility of a 10% to 15% savings via coordinated service buying. A contracting team review was performed and expanded to cover the enterprise, in which data was validated and assessed, and then reviewed with respect to government and industry best practices.

Current Scope
The DON Material Establishment Study provided lessons learned that the Navy hopes to leverage in the RAI-NC Acquisition Spend Analysis Pilot (ASAP). The Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) is undertaking this pilot in cooperation with the Army, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Air Force and the DON. Components of the Navy's initial assessment provided by the Material Establishment Study and the lessons learned are as follows:

Problems using DD 350 database for business intelligence
- Coding and input
- Insufficient detail, contract vs. CLIN level data
- Excludes items not awarded by DON (or below DD350 reporting threshold)

Other factors that inhibit consolidation
- Socio-economic considerations
- Geographic dispersion of work
- No objective measure of savings

The CBIS pilot will demonstrate that it is feasible to discover, pull, and analyze spend data at the DoD enterprise level in a net centric environment. The specific pilot objectives are:

1. Automate the collection of spend data across the DoD
2. Prove that it is possible, from a DoD-wide perspective, to reduce the complexity of data integration
3. Increase the accuracy of information used to support DoD?s strategic sourcing commodity efforts
4. Demonstrate the benefits of net-centric tenets in the Acquisition Domain

Future Impact
The RAI-NC Acquisition Spend Analysis Pilot is a program by which a single DoD-level view of spend data will be piloted. Within this pilot, a common set of business definitions and a data model (metadata) will be established. This information will be accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime using existing COTS-based business intelligence reporting tools.