Acquisition Policy serves as a change-agent to help create a procurement system which:
Supports and promotes the achievement of federal business goals and strategies;
Reduces federal overhead buying products and services at lower cost;
Facilitates improved taxpayer service delivery by placing better quality, higher performing supplies, technology, and support service in the hands of federal managers;
Is more efficient, timely, and customer focused;
Produces better information to support planning and execution of the procurement function;
Encourages the participation of all the nation's diverse human and business resources in a revitalized economy;
Serves and protects the public interest; and
Demands that the government's business be conducted under the highest ethical standards.