Best In Class

Best in Class (BIC) is a contracting and acquisition designation used to denote contracts that meet rigorous category management performance criteria as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The NASA SEWP V contracts are designated as BIC for both products and services and represent a preferred government-wide solution that provides unique opportunities to leverage the government's buying power. The BIC designation allows acquisition experts to take advantage of the NASA SEWP fully vetted, government-wide contracts/solutions; supports a government-wide migration to solutions that are mature and market-proven; assists in the optimization of spending within the government-wide category management framework; and increases the transactional data available for agency level and government-wide analysis of buying behavior.

Government-wide category management has undertaken several initiatives around customer-centric tools, templates, and best practices. The creation of these BIC designations is just the latest initiative, intended to enable the Information Technology Category to:

• Improve requirements development, procurement and management
• Partner strategically with industry
• Reduce contract duplication
• Foster cross-agency collaboration
• Better understand category and sub-category markets