NITAAC Industry Advisory Council
(IAC) Meeting
Thursday June 22, 2006
Bldg.
Conference
Room 6D01
10:00 P.M.
– 11:30 P.M.
Attendees:
Victor Powers, NITAAC Program
Director, powersv@od.nih.gov
Rusty Wall, CSC, IAC
Co-Chair, rwall@csc.com
Donald Wilson, CO, NITAAC
Greg Holliday, CO, NITAAC
Millicent Manning, CO, NITAAC
Wanda Russell, CO, NITAAC
Mary Alice Johnson, CTS,
NITAAC New Business Support johnsmar@od.nih.gov
Belinda Coleman, CTS,
NITAAC New Business Support
Joanne Connelly, Connelly-Works,
NITAAC New Business Support
Linda Martin, CTS, NITAAC
New Business Support
Donna Smith, CTS, NITAAC
New Business Support
Esther Burgess, NAC, SRI
Dennis Dietrich, IAC, Digicon
Frank Durso, IAC, SRA
Cindy Kendall, IAC, SAIC
Bill Cratty, IAC, Apptis
Geralynn Franceschini, IAC,
Unisys
Tony Pease, Unisys,
The Thursday, June 22, 2006 Meeting Minutes Follow:
Opening Remarks by Victor Powers on behalf of Diane Frasier, NIH, IAC Co-Chair
Diane Frasier was called
away at the last minute to NIH Main Campus.
Victor Powers welcomed everyone and kicked the meeting off. He discussed the exceptional turn out and
NITAAC participation at the Health IT Conference and at AFCEA
TechNet.
NITAAC’s
Outreach and Marketing Programs, Mary
Alice Johnson, CTS
Mary Alice Johnson briefed on
the outstanding leads generated at the Health IT Conference and at AFCEA
TechNet. She noted especially that they
had great interest in NITAAC’s GWACs from JCS, NSA, the ISAF and FBI. Customers were brought to NITAAC in part due
to the full page NITAAC insert in the Health IT Conference Brochure.
Mary Alice also provided
handouts on the upcoming ITS.Gov conference on July 26th at the
Ronald Reagan building.
NITAAC outreach is pushing hard
for increased participation for its.Gov July 26th. NITAAC will have a Pavilion at the Ronald
Reagan Bldg. where companies can contribute and
NITAAC has arranged pre-negotiated discounts for all its partner vendors (Click on flyer to view). This is the end of year showcase, so please
contact Beverly Bricker to discuss participating.
NITAAC’s Outreach and
Marketing Program, Beverly Bricker and Donna Smith, CTS, NITAAC Outreach Team
Beverly Bricker and
Donna Smith provided a presentation on their program in support of NITAAC for
specialized GWAC training on NITAAC’s GWACs as mandated by OMB, and as detailed
in NITAAC’s Program Plan for QA and risk management. (Click on IAC Presentation to
view the presentation.) You may
contact Beverly Bricker with you comments at bbricker@ctsmd.com.
Discussion of Acquisition Environment, Victor Powers, NITAAC
Program Director
Victor Powers
provided updates on the several OMB mandates related to NITAAC’s GWACs. The NITAAC training presentation (above) is a
description of the first of many steps to address OMB mandates to Executive
Agents to provide training to their staff, to customers, and to contractors to
assure quality and reduce program risk. NITAAC welcomes comments and
recommendations concerning their training program.
There was no
news on any new OMB initiatives related to NITAAC’s representation on the OMB
GWAC Committee.
Discussion of Agenda Items for IAC Subcommittees Rusty Wall, IAC Co-Chair and
Geralynn Franceschini, Marketing Subcommittee Chair
Geralynn Franceschini – Chair
of Marketing Subcommittee provided her meeting minutes and briefed on the
status future agenda items and results of the marketing subcommittee meeting
held in June. Geralynn distributed her
written minutes (see IAC Marketing
Subcommittee meeting minutes for June).
The major points of discussion included the need for additional
Marketing Subcommittee members representing ECS III and the need to prioritize
marketing efforts. Geralynn also noted the obvious value of including Marketing
subcommittee inputs in the ongoing NITAAC Outreach and Education effort led by
CTS. All agreed with the above and with
the value of another Quarterly NITAAC Vendor meeting as soon as possible. Please note that the next Marketing
Subcommittee meeting will be held at NITAAC at 10:00 AM on the second Tuesday
of July- July 11th.
Dwight
Chamberlain Chair of the Government Affairs Subcommittee and Diane McLaughlin –
Chair of the Programs Subcommittee could not attend due to short notice schedule conflicts. Dwight asked Tony Pease from Unisys to attend
the IAC in his place, and to report the results of the IAC at the next
Government Affairs subcommittee meeting
Report on NITAAC Contract Performance Mr. Greg Holliday
as of May 25, 2006
Mr. Donald Wilson
Ms. Millicent Manning
Millicent Manning reported
an inception to date total on ECS III of
57,940 orders for a total value of $1.1B.
Donald Wilson reported 590
Delivery Orders with a value of $88M.
Greg Holliday briefed that
CIO-SP2i now has 443 awarded Task
Orders with a base year value of $1.47B and an option year value of $5.7B if all
options are exercised.
Open
Discussion/Potential Agenda Items for the Next Meeting
The next IAC Meeting is
scheduled for Thursday, 20 July- the third Thursday in July from 10:00 Am-11:30
AM.
Open Discussion/Potential Agenda Items for the next
Meeting
Your input is requested on any new agenda items for the next IAC meeting. Please propose any suggested agenda items or
your desire to participate on the IAC Subcommittees as a new member for our
next meeting. –
You may send your
input to Rusty Wall, rwall@csc.com or Victor Powers, powersv@od.nih.gov.
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