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This month, the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Customer Experience (OCE), in association with the Customer Experience Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goal team, released the Customer Experience Services Evaluation and Buying Guide. This resource is intended to answer questions and provide guidance to agencies looking to build their Customer Experience (CX) capacity through Human-centered Design (HCD).
The Federal Government is focused now more than ever on providing better experiences for the public, incorporating modern practices into their services such as CX and HCD principles. Some agencies have mature CX practices, while others are just getting started. One of the barriers to federal programs better understanding their customers, and designing their services to meet their expectations, is a lack of knowledge of leading practices in these disciplines. One way to build agency capacity is to buy expertise and services from the private sector. However, the Federal Government as a whole must learn how to effectively buy these new (to government) types of services. The new Customer Experience Services Evaluation and Buying Guide will help to navigate this process and more.
The guide highlights a number of important topic areas:
- Fundamental questions to ask in pursuing CX maturity
- A roadmap on what agencies should consider as they buy CX services
- Evaluation criteria for assessing the capabilities of industry partners, including what to seek in proposals as well as what to be cautious of
- Information gathered from GSA’s HCD Request for Information (released fall of 2019)
- Resources and organizations to reference and contact
If you have any questions or comments about the guide please contact GSA’s OCE at
CustomerExperience@gsa.gov.
