NITAAC Industry Advisory Council (IAC)
MEETING MINUTES
Bldg.
Conference Room 6D01
Thursday, February 20, 2007, 2:00
P.M.–3:30 P.M.
Attendees:
Diane J. Frasier, IAC
Co-Chair, NIH
Victor E. Powers, NITAAC
Program Director, powersv@od.nih.gov
Donald Wilson, CO, NITAAC
Millicent Manning, CO, NITAAC
Rusty Wall, IAC Co-Chair, CSC
rwall@csc.com
Diane McLaughlin, IAC,
BearingPoint
Geralynn Franceschini, IAC,
Unisys
Frank Durso, IAC, SRA
Cindy Kendall, IAC, SAIC
Dwight Chamberlain, IAC,
Unisys
Dennis Dietrich, IAC, Digicon
Bill Cratty, IAC, Apptis
Debbie
Rieger, IAC, A-Tek
The Thursday,
February 20, 2007 Meeting Minutes
follow:
è Opening Remarks Ms. Diane J. Frasier
Acting
ADA, Head of Contracting Activity
Director,
Office of Acquisition Management and Policy, OA, OM
Ms. Diane Frasier welcomed everyone to the IAC meeting.
è Discussion of “Defense IG Finds Major Ms. Diane J. Frasier
Flaws in Contracts Issued Via
Treasury” Acting
ADA, Head of Contracting Activity
Director,
Office of Acquisition Management and Policy, OA, OM
Ms. Diane Frasier distributed a January 3, 2007 Government
GOVEXEC.com article on the subject of flaws in Government contracting, and led
a discussion concerning the Federal acquisition environment and the need for
increased scrutiny and governance. The
current Federal acquisition environment is such that we can all expect, and
should welcome increased scrutiny. The
article addressed a Defense IG report concerning interagency purchases through
the Treasury Department’s FedSource Program.
This topic provoked positive comments from the group concerning NITAAC’s
strong governance.
Click here to view the article.
è NITAAC’s Outreach/Upcoming Shows Request
for Mr. Victor E. Powers
Comments NITAAC Program
Director
Victor Powers addressed NITAAC’s plans for attending the various 2007 Tradeshows. Additionally, he addressed NITAAC’s plans for ramping up the NITAAC Outreach and Education program in the spring. IAC council members are encouraged to contact Victor Powers with any suggested additional shows or changes to the draft 2007 Tradeshow schedule previously distributed.
è Update on the Federal Electronic Challenge Ms. Millicent Manning
Program (EPEAT) and NITAAC Surveys Sr.
Contracting Officer, NITAAC
Ms. Millicent Manning, NITAAC Senior Contracting Officer, briefed the IAC on the progress to date of the EPEAT Program. Ms. Manning is representing NITAAC on a NIH committee addressing the EPEAT initiative. By logging in to http://www.epeat.net both customers and vendors can see that, to date, over 380 items, primarily desktops, notebooks and monitors are EPEAT Certified as Bronze and over 340 are certified as Silver or better. None, as yet, are certified as Gold.
Ms. Manning briefed the IAC on the 3rd Annual Federal
Electronics Stewardship Conference that took place on February 6-7, 2007, on the
National Institutes of Health campus in
Ms. Manning also briefed on a
new Executive Order 13423 published
on 24 January 2007 concerning EPEAT that requires Agencies to do the following:
(i) when acquiring an electronic product to meet its requirements, meets at least 95 percent of those requirements with an Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)-registered electronic product, unless there is no EPEAT standard for such product,
(ii) enables the Energy Star feature on agency computers and monitors,
(iii) establishes and implements policies to extend the useful life of agency electronic equipment, and
(iv) uses environmentally sound practices with respect to disposition of agency electronic equipment that has reached the end of its useful life. (a copy of this new Executive Order 13423—Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management is attached). Click here to view the Executive Order 13423. This new order also establishes the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive.
è Collaborative Efforts of Subcommittees
in Ms. Diane McLaughlin
Developing GWAC Comparative Analysis
Ms. Diane McLaughlin,
Programs Subcommittee chair, led a roundtable discussion exhibiting results to
date from a draft comparative analysis of current, past, and future GWAC
contracts, and representative Agency ID/IQ MACs.
è Discussion/Status of IAC Subcommittees
– Marketing Chair Ms. Geralynn Franceschini
– Programs Chair Ms. Diane McLaughlin
– Government Affairs Chair Mr. Dwight Chamberlain
Each of the Subcommittee Chairs reported on the status of their subcommittee efforts. The Marketing Subcommittee and Programs Subcommittee meeting minutes for Feb 2007 are attached.
è Report on NITAAC Contract Performance
Mr. Donald Wilson and Ms. Millicent Manning, NITAAC Senior Contracting Officers, reported on NITAAC contract performance as of the end of January 2006.
• ECS III has an inception-to-date total of 62,184 orders for a total value of $1.3B.
• IW2nd has currently awarded 467 Delivery Orders with a value of $71.3M.
• CIO-SP2i has 486 awarded Task Orders with a base value of $1.6B and an option year value of $6.6B if all options are exercised.
è Open Discussion/Potential Agenda Items for the Next Meeting
The next IAC
Meeting will be held on Thursday, March 22nd
from 2:00 P.M.–3:30 P.M. in Bldg. 6100 Executive Blvd., in Conference
Room 6D01. The IAC will, at a minimum,
discuss the results of the collaborative efforts of the subcommittees on the
GWAC comparative analysis and the subcommittee minutes as presented by each
Subcommittee Chairperson, NITAAC Contract Performance, New FAR rules related to
T&M task orders and the ongoing efforts of the NITAAC Outreach and
Education Team.
Your input is requested on any new agenda items for the next IAC meeting. Please propose your desired agenda items or your desire to participate on the IAC Subcommittees as a new member.
You may send your input to: Rusty Wall, rwall@csc.com and/or
Victor
Powers, powersv@od.nih.gov
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The next IAC meeting is
Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:00 P.M.–3:30 P.M. Bldg. 6100 Executive Blvd. Conference Room 6D01