The State of Utah Division of Purchasing has created the new Office of Contract Management Support (OCMS) in order to improve the overall efficacy of contracts and contract management throughout the State. OCMS is being implemented with a focus on creating and continuing partnership relations and being a value-add resource. It aims to accomplish this through multiple focus areas; creation of contract management standards, proactive engagement and support to agencies, trend analysis, vendor scoring.

As part of the statewide performance measurement system, funds that are allocated to contracted vendor services require metrics to track those results and report them accordingly.