Common use of Category Management Clause in Contracts

Category Management. Category management is a strategic approach to purchasing that allocates a government’s procurement resources into specific categories of spending to be analyzed by category managers and aligned with the marketplace through in-depth spend and market analyses. The main objective of Category management is to build efficiencies and maximize purchasing decisions across the agency by reducing duplication in the contracting process; better leveraging the government’s buying power, and promoting the use of innovative and best in class solutions. By consolidating purchases into main areas of spend, category management serves to move the government away from managing purchases and evaluating prices individually across multiple purchasing units to more directly managing entire categories of common spend to deliver better value for the entire agency. This category for services is for the assistance in development and implementation