To be successful in performance-based acquisition, the agency must retain at least a core of the integrated project team on the project for contract management. Those on the team have the most knowledge, experience, and insight into what needs to happen next and what is expected during contract performance. Contract award is not the final measure of success. Effective and efficient contract performance that delivers a solution is the goal. The team should stay together to see that end reached.

Acquisition team members are expected to collaborate with all requisite external organizations in order to provide the best possible service to the citizens. The most notable example, 20 years on the making, is the USDA's food stamp program. The federal government collaborated with state and local governments, banks, and supermarkets to move away from the paper food stamps to debit cards. This has not only helped ease the "stigma" of the food stamps but has significantly reduced fraud.