An Agile Software Development Solicitation Guide
Solicitation guide from 18F on how to procure for agile software, to benefit government agencies.
This is Part II in a series about how to contract for agile software development services. See also: “Prerequisites for modular contracting”.
Government solicitations to procure custom software are often long and complicated, include many pages of requirements, and can take months — even years — to write. But an agency can hire an agile software contractor with a solicitation that’s only a dozen pages, written in an afternoon, using our agile contract format. It can be done under existing procurement regulations and within contracting officers’ existing authority. The savings, in time and money, can be enormous.
Let’s look at what goes into making a complete acquisition package using these methods. Beyond just the adapted format for the solicitation, it’s our experience that there are a handful of additional elements required to make this work:
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