Shay Assad, the Pentagon's pricing director, provided details Monday on the Defense Department's new and ongoing efforts to enable acquisition program managers to better assess commercial products and services. Key to DOD's strategy will be the establishment of several new commercial pricing centers of excellence, or regional cells. One of the cells will focus wholly on services contracts, an area where program managers have sometimes deferred to lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) contracting arrangements, much to the chagrin of industry...
