The Defense Department failed to meet its goals for achieving competition in procurement programs in fiscal year 2011, according to a Pentagon memo. Overall, DOD sought to compete procurement programs 62.8 percent of the time, but the department only achieved 58.5 percent, according to the Dec. 16 memo signed by Richard Ginman , the Pentagon's director of defense procurement and acquisition policy. The Pentagon also had a goal to achieve “effective competition” -- defined as receiving more than one offer...
