Smarter and Better Acquisition
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The Better Buy project aims to simplify how the government spends about $530 billion a year by connecting a volunteer network of roughly 500 people across federal, state, local and industry; its public site (betterbypro.com) collects 140 ideas with hundreds of comments and votes, then maps those ideas to real procurements. Tools used include GovLoop, a wiki applied to three live requirements (data.gov as a test) and Twitter status updates; early results show faster iteration, clearer requirements and concrete lessons learned.
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