It s not right. We must set the highest of high standards. In my administration, standards will be higher, and results will matter. In private contracting, government often treats contractors as if they were another government agency. That is, contracts are awarded based on compliance with bureaucratic rules.
Results are secondary.
Under my proposal, over the next five years, a majority of the service contracts offered throughout the federal government will be performance-based. In other words, rather than micromanaging the details of how contractors operate, the government must set the standards, set the results and give the contractor the freedom to achieve it in the best way. We must have a government that thinks differently, so we need to recruit talented and imaginative people to public service. We can do this by reforming the civil service with a few simple measures. We ll establish a meaningful system to measure performance.