Everyone would like to obtain the best prices on their purchased services contracts, but price is a moving target. That’s because there are too many moving parts on any purchased services contract. Therefore, I’m willing to bet that very few purchased services contracts are exactly alike, thus, making it almost impossible to benchmark by traditional methods. For example, a food service contract to manage your food service department could include the following under its scope of services: Hiring your current workers, buying food, running your cafeteria, and running your coffee shop. So, how can you have an apples-to-apples comparison?