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Innovation Resource Library

The Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL) Innovation Resources Library serves as a centralized platform for accessing all relevant PIL documents and resources. 

PIL Yearbooks 

  • PIL Yearbook FY 2024
  • PIL Yearbook FY 2023
  • PIL Yearbook FY 2022
  • PIL Yearbook FY 2021
  • PIL Yearbook FY 2020
  • PIL Yearbook FY 2019
  • PIL Yearbook FY 2018
  • PIL Yearbook FY 2017
  • Who Knows the FAR - Answer Key

PIL Innovation Snapshots
 

Lowering Entry Barriers

  • Discovery
  • Down-Selects
  • Leveraging Procurement Flexibilities

Shortening Time to Award

  • Comparative Evaluation
  • Confidence Ratings
  • On-the-Spot Consensus
  • Streamlined Evaluation Documentation

Encouraging Competition 

  • Affordability
  • Group Oral Debriefings
  • Highest Technically Rated Offeror with a Fair and Reasonable Price
  • Mission Focused Evaluation Criteria
  • Rates Only Pricing
  • Share Evaluation Documentation 

Increasing Successful Outcomes

  • Betterment
  • Enhanced Contract Type Conversion
  • Involve End-Users (JAM Sessions)
  • Oral Presentations
  • Product or Technical Demonstration
  • Select Best-Suited, Then Negotiate

Additional Resources

  • DHS PIL Tested Innovation Techniques
  • PIL Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
  • PIL Innovative Culture
  • Acquisition Innovation Labs & Pilot for Digital Acquisition Innovation Lab – March 2016 Memo 
Last Updated: 04/28/2025
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