15 Reasons (and Some Tactics!) To Get 'Simplified' Dollars!

During Fiscal Year 2015, Simplified Acquisitions: 

- were leveraged by sixty-one department-level contracting agencies last fiscal year;

- accounted for a record-setting $20 billion in goods and services spending in FY2015;

- are generally reserved for small business concerns;

- have realized an average spending increase of one billion per fiscal year since FY2009;

- saw 70% of the dollars awarded to standalone contracts versus established contract vehicles.

Interested but still need a little nudge? The following 5 reasons did not make the 'Top 15' list, but we think they're really good one's too!

These resulted from agencies making buys using Simplified Acquisition Procedures during FY2015:

1. Nearly 6,800 small business concerns split $9 billion of the $20 billion Simplified Acquisition spend in FY2015 - an average of $1,344,916 per company;
2. Over 1,000 NAICS Codes and more than 2,000 Product and Service Codes were referenced;
3. 103 of the small businesses making the list netted $10 million or more in obligations;
4. There were 1,896 small businesses who netted between $1 million and $10 million via these mostly competitive purchases;
5. Making the cut with at least $250,000 in obligations but less than $1 million were 4,787 small businesses.