How do you deal with people who may be resistant to change? ANSWER: Education and involvement are the keys to promoting change.
QUESTION: How do you incentivize contractors? ANSWER: Provide appropriate RFP language. For example, sections L (instructions to offerers) can require offerers to provide evidence of open systems experience and understanding, opinions on profiles, their definition of open systems, etc. Section M can contain evaluation factors that evaluate a contractor’s open systems architecture, its life cycle support strategy, its technology insertion program, strengths of market knowledge, etc. (For examples of MOSA contracting language please see http://www.acq.osd.mil/osjtf/html/pm_appendixb.html) For detailed guidance on using MOSA please review the Open Systems Joint Task Force guide titled “A Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) To Acquisition” at http://www.acq.osd.mil/osjtf/pmguide.
