tail spend

New Report: Controlling Federal Spending by Managing the Long Tail of Procurement

Submitted by on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 14:23
The IBM Center for The Business of Government is today releasing a new report, Controlling Federal Spending by Managing the Long Tail of Procurement, by David C.Wyld, Laborde Professor of Management, College of Business, Southwestern Louisiana University.

In this report, Professor Wyld provides the first quant

Controlling Federal Spending by Managing the Long Tail of Procurement

Submitted by on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 10:25

In this report, Professor Wyld provides the first quantitative analysis of tail spend in the federal government.  In short, tail spend is procurement outlays that are outside of an organization’s core spending and core supplier groups, covering many miscellaneous expenditure categories that are not managed as part of an organization’s core operations.