RELATED February 27, 2023 Building a Culture of Innovation in Government February 21, 2023 Mobilizing Cloud Computing for Public Service January 11, 2023 In her own words: Recommendations for building inclusive leadership in the federal government Back to Reports Acquisition Shared Services: Progress, Lessons and Opportunities December 17, 2015 The federal government is the world’s largest buyer of goods and services, yet agencies frequently make purchases with little insight into what other agencies are buying. In fiscal year 2014, for example, more than 500 departments and agencies across the federal government spent more than $420 billion in purchases with only occasional collaboration across organizational lines. This fragmentation often leads to costly redundancies and inefficiencies in procurement actions, contracting vehicles and overall acquisition efforts. The Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte collaborated on this study, which reinforces that changes in the way the government acquires goods and services can help consolidate overlapping and duplicative acquisition processes to take advantage of the buying power of the federal government. Read our related whitepaper, “Human Resources Shared Services: Progress, Lessons and Opportunities.” Learn more Download (133k)