You’re not buying a defined product, but instead buying developers’ time. A labor-hour contract, not firm fixed price.The product owner, in collaboration with the developers, will determine on a sprint-by-sprint basis what work needs to be done. A Statement of Objectives - not a Statement of Work - because you don’t know exactly what needs to be done, so you can’t possibly define it up front.Our experience that there are a handful of additional elements required Beyond just the adapted format for the solicitation, it’s Let’s look at what goes into making a complete acquisition package using The savings, in time and money, can be enormous.
It can be done underĮxisting procurement regulations and within contracting officers’Įxisting authority.
But an agency can hire an agile softwareĬontractor with a solicitation that’s only a dozen pages, written in anĪfternoon, using our agile contract format. Government solicitations to procure custom software are often long andĬomplicated, include many pages of requirements, and can take months -Įven years - to write. This is Part II in a series about how to contract for agile softwareĭevelopment services.
