NITAAC Industry Advisory Council (IAC)
MEETING MINUTES
Bldg.
Conference Room 6D01
Thursday, August 21, 2008, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Attendees:
Antonio R. Rodriguez, Acting Associate Director, Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations sitting in for Diane J. Frasier, IAC Co-Chair, NIH
Wanda Russell, NITAAC Acting Deputy and Senior Acquisition
Official
Millicent Manning, CO, NITAAC
Rusty Wall, IAC Co-Chair, CSC rwall@csc.com
Linda
Martin, IAC, Unisys
Sandi La
Croix, IAC, SRA
Cindy Kendall, IAC, SAIC
Dennis Dietrich, IAC, Hildonis Assoc.
Debbie Rieger,
IAC, A-TEK
Rip Singh, IAC, BAH,
Esther Burgess, NRC, SI International
Eric Stalfort,
Marketing SubC, Accenture
Charles Mann,
Marketing SubC, AMDEX
Polly Sileski,
NRC, IDOX Solutions
Jim Terry, IAC,
Able IT,
Diane McLaughlin,
IAC, BearingPoint
Jerry Lin, IAC,
UHD
Yvonne Keam,UHD
JoAnne Melfi, TechTeam
The Thursday,
August 21, 2008 Meeting Minutes follow:
èOpening
Remarks Mr. Antonio R. Rodriguez, Acting Associate Director, Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations
Mr. Antonio R. Rodriguez
welcomed everyone to the IAC meeting on behalf of Ms. Diane Frasier who had
just been called to another meeting.
è Update on the CIO-SP-New Contract Ms.
Wanda F. Russell, Acting Deputy Program
Director NITAAC
Ms. Wanda F. Russell provided an
update to the IAC on the status of CIO-SPNew.
NITAAC is currently evaluating the over 100 responses it received and is
in the process of developing an acquisition strategy for submission to and
approval by OMB. In parallel, with its submission to OMB, NITAAC also plans to
request a sources sought via FED BIZ Ops at approximately the same time.
è NITAAC's Invoice Processing System Ms.
Wanda F. Russell, Acting Deputy Program Director NITAAC
Ms. Wanda F. Russell provided an
update to the IAC on the status of its invoice payment efforts and close
coordination with the NIH Office of Financial Management. This has NITAAC’s highest priority and
coordination efforts are working. New
issues are being corrected quickly. The
most common problem requiring NITAAC intervention continues to be contractor
submission of invoices with incorrect identifiers, contract numbers, NBS
numbers, or a COTR signature.
è Update on the NITAAC Help Desk Ms. Wanda F. Russell, Acting Deputy Program Director NITAAC
Ms. Wanda F. Russell provided an
update to the IAC on the status of the NITAAC Helpline. It has been a rousing success and it has been
instrumental in getting issues resolved quickly. Please note the number 1-888-773-6542.
è Marketing/Tradeshows Update Ms. Wanda F. Russell, Acting Deputy Program Director NITAAC
Ms. Wanda F. Russell provided an
update to the IAC on the upcoming marketing efforts on behalf of Ms. Joycelyn
Bacchus. Recently, these efforts have
included the NCMA World Congress, The AFCEA Conference at
è NIH’s New Business System Ms. Wanda F. Russell, Acting Deputy Program Director NITAAC
Ms. Wanda F. Russell provided an
update to the IAC on the status of its NBS implementation. One of the items that the NITAAC COs are
struggling with is the impediments in the NBS to accepting modifications to
existing task orders. NITAAC is working
with the NIH NBS team to make modifications to the system to ease this process.
è Fee Collections Ms. Wanda F. Russell, Acting Deputy Program Director NITAAC
Ms. Wanda F. Russell provided an
update to the IAC on the status of its collection of NIH fees from
Vendors. Problem: Many vendors are not
paying the NIH fees due in a timely manner.
In order to assist in tracking these overdue payments to NIH, all vendors
are encouraged to provide additional detail in their monthly orders reports on
any efforts they are making and the status of those efforts, by task order for
any overdue NIH fees.
è Discussion/Status of IAC
Subcommittees
– Programs: Subcommittee Update Ms.
Diane McLaughlin
Ms. Diane McLaughlin provided an update to the
IAC on the status of its inputs to the NITAAC concerning comparison of contract
vehicles.
– Marketing Ms.
Geralynn Franceschini
Ms. Geralynn Franceschini could not attend the meeting and Linda
Martin, on her behalf, noted that there was no subcommittee meeting in July or
August.
– Government Affairs Ms.
Debbie Rieger
Ms. Debbie Rieger and Ms. Cindy Kendall provided an update on upcoming
legislation that could affect GWAC contracts- see the attachment
that was supplied at the IAC.
è Report on NITAAC Contract Performance Ms. Wanda F. Russell
as of August 2008 Acting Deputy Program Director, NITAAC
Ms. Wanda F. Russell
reported on NITAAC contract performance as of the end of July 2008.
• CIO-SP2i has 545
awarded Task Orders with a base value of $1.8B and an option year value of
$7.1B if all options are exercised. (23 new task orders this FY)
• ECS III has an inception-to-date award total of 67,190 orders for
a total value of $1.34B. (1846 new delivery orders this FY)
• IW2nd – no report
è Open Discussion/Potential Agenda Items for the Next Meeting
The next IAC Meeting will be
held on the 3rd Thursday of October, October 16th, from
10:00 A.M.–11:30 A.M. in Bldg.
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 inputs to: Rusty
Wall, rwall@csc.com and/or Tom Keith,
Keithth@od.nih.gov
The next IAC meeting is
Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:00
A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
Bldg. 6100 Executive Blvd. Conference Room 6D01