This Echo episode of "Acquisition Practices Worth Emulating" has Amy Smith sharing how she and her team leveraged the flexibility of the FAR to tailor several contract awards and in doing so reduced the average award times by more than 20% (more recent data for past year shows an on average 49% reduction in award times).  In short, work got on contract faster.    Click here to view slides https://www.dau.mil/cop/pm/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc=/cop/pm/DAU%20Sponsored%20Documents/...