b'Managementto ensuring commitment to it by a small team of dedicatedare identifying performance metrics and talking with top career management experts, combined to enable categorysuppliers in their respective categories.management to continue as an administration priority after the 2017 presidential transition. Beneath the 10 super categories are 50 subcategories. Each governmentwide category is governed by a team A governmentwide Category Management Leadershipand managed from one or more executive agent agencies. Council created in late 2014 comprised representativesThese agencies provide category managers. Category and from the largest spending agencies: Defense, Energy,subcategory managers develop market intelligence, and Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, Veteransbuying strategies, and identify the best contract vehicles. Affairs, General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA. In addition, the chief financial officers from each of theThis initiative was carried forward into the current Presidents 24 largest agencies designated single points of contactManagement Agenda which set performance targets to be to coordinate governmentwide category managementachieved by FY 2020, including:initiatives. Cumulative cost avoidance of $18 billionMore than $270 billion in common annual contractA cumulative 60 percent of common spending managed spending was allocated among 10 super categories.under category management principlesThese include areas such as travel, facilities construction,A cumulative 40 percent of addressable spending on medical supplies, and transportation services. A careerbest-in-class contractssenior executive was designated as the category manager for each. As of late 2016, these teams were staffed withA cumulative 13 percent reduction in the number of about 350 people from 46 departments and agencies whounique contractsWINTER 2019 / 2020 IBM Center for The Business of Government 99'