This competition report conveys the efforts of the U.S. Postal Service® efforts towards promoting competition and obtaining best value. In FY2014, the Postal Service continued to expand its efforts to promote competition through the execution of various strategies, tools, and programs. These efforts included:
- Educating the buying organizations.
- Targeting supplier outreach aimed at increasing the pool of suppliers..
- Developing reports that identify expiring contracts.
- Conducting presentations and briefings that promote competition and drive towards best value.
This report illustrates the positive results and highlights the programs that were executed to improve contract planning and to promote competition. The report also contains contracting data and information about noncompetitive purchases valued at $1 million (M) or greater that were reviewed by the Competition Advocate (CA).
In FY2014, the Postal Service committed over $6.8 billion (B) in contracting actions and awarded $5.6B or 81.9% of those actions competitively. When compared to FY2013, the Postal Service committed over $5.9B in contracting actions and awarded $4.9B or 84.2% of those actions competitively. *We benchmarked these results against the information reported via the Federal Procurement Data System–Next Generation (FPDS-NG). In FY2014, the federal government reported that 66.28% of the total contracting actions were awarded competitively. If you remove the Department of Defense (DOD) contracting data, the percentage of competitive contracts reported for all other federal agencies is 80.01%.
In FY2014, the CA reviewed 82 Noncompetitive Purchase Requests (NPRs), with an estimated committed value of $2.1B over a period of 5 years. When compared to FY2013, the CA reviewed 61 NPRs with an estimated committed value of $631.9M over a period of 5 years.
These results represent a significant increase in the dollar value of NPRs submitted to the CA for review in FY2014 compared to FY2013. The uptick in NPRs issued in FY2014 is the result of an increase in overall contract commitments and 11 large NPRs that were issued with an estimated value of $1.6B and is later explained in this report.
