NITAAC Industry
Advisory Council (IAC) Meeting
Thursday August 17, 2006
Bldg.
Conference Room 6D01
10:00 P.M. – 11:30 P.M.
Attendees:
Diane
Frasier, NIH, IAC Co-Chair
Victor
Powers, NITAAC Program Director, powersv@od.nih.gov
Rusty
Wall, CSC, IAC Co-Chair, rwall@csc.com
Donald
Wilson, CO, NITAAC
Wanda
Russell, CO, NITAAC
Millicent
Manning, CO, NITAAC
Cheryl
Brown, CTS, NITAAC New Business Support
Bob
Gober, CTS, NITAAC New Business Support
Dennis
Dietrich, IAC, BearingPoint
Debbie
Rieger, IAC, A-TEK
Cindy
Kendall, SAIC, IAC
Jim
Terry, IAC, Ecompex
The Thursday, August 17,
2006 Meeting Minutes Follow:
è Opening Remarks Ms. Diane
J. Frasier,
Acting
Director, Office of Acquisition
Management and Policy, OA,
Diane Frasier welcomed everyone and kicked the meeting off.
è NITAAC Executive Agent Designation Renewal Mr. Victor E. Powers,
Granted by OMB NITAAC
Program Director
Diane Frasier and Victor Powers both addressed the renewal of Executive Agency status to the Director of NIH to serve as an executive agent for government-wide acquisition of information technology services and products under the CIO-SP2i contract, the Image World 2nd contract, and the ECS III contract. Diane Frasier congratulated Victor Powers and his staff on the excellent job they had done obtaining this renewal, and acknowledged all the additional effort they made in preparation for and in providing additional data during the OMB reviews. The IAC members also congratulated Victor Powers and his staff.
In his letter, the Director, OMB addressed the additional reviews that are on-going and the potential changes contemplated for GWACs and other interagency contracts. He also stated that OMB is currently reviewing how the governance structure for creating and renewing interagency contracts can be improved and that OMB will carefully consider the forthcoming recommendations on this issue made by the Acquisition Advisory Panel. (Please click on OMB letter for a copy of the letter from the Director.)
è Discussion of Proposed Agenda Items for the upcoming NITAAC Business Meeting (tentatively scheduled for October 2006)
Victor Powers proposed a draft business meeting agenda and requested discussion inputs from the IAC. All agreed that having a Keynote speaker address the potential topics would spark additional interest in the meeting. (For a copy of the first draft of the NITAAC Vendor Business Meeting agenda presented at the IAC Meeting please click here - comments /suggestions are welcome).
All NITAAC Contractor Primes are solicited to suggest agenda items for the business meeting.
è NITAAC Outreach and Education Team
NITAAC’s Outreach/Upcoming Shows Ms.
Cheryl Brown, CTS,
and Marketing Programs NITAAC
Outreach and Education Team
Cheryl Brown briefed the IAC on four initiatives going on in support of NITAAC’s Outreach and Education Program:
• Plans for an upcoming NITAAC Webinar featuring a presentation on the Federal Acquisition Environment by former OMB director of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy under President Clinton, Dr. Steve Kellman.
• NITAAC’s Learning Center Update and status of NITAAC’s upcoming newsletter. (To view a screenshot of the draft homepage please click here.)
• Upcoming AFCEA
Show where NITAAC will have a booth at the Land War Net Conference (formerly
DOIM/AKM) from August 22—24, 2006, in
• The third Annual itsGov/NITAAC Pavilion and Vendor Participation (July 26)—Post Evaluation
è Discussion/Status of IAC Subcommittees’ Agenda Items Mr. Rusty Wall
The subcommittees did not present at the August IAC Meeting.
è Report on NITAAC Contract Performance Ms. Wanda Russell
as of August 2006 Mr.
Donald Wilson
Ms.
Millicent Manning
Senior
Contracting Officers, NITAAC
ECS III has an inception to date total of 59,414 orders for a total value of $1.2B.
IW2nd has 462 Delivery Orders with a value of $71M and 42 Task Orders valued at $17.2 in initial award value (w/ options $13M additional).
CIO-SP2i now has 448 awarded Task Orders with a base year value of $1.4B and an option year value of $5.7B if all options are exercised.
è EAGLE Contract Awards (other MACs)
Rusty Wall IAC Co-Chair/CSC provided the IAC with a short
summary of the newly awarded (so far only to the large business bidders) DHS
Eagle ID/IQ contract available to its agencies. Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge
Solutions (EAGLE) is a multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite
quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle, specifically designed as the preferred source
of information technology (IT) services for the majority of the Department of
Homeland Security’s (DHS) enterprise infrastructure and initiatives. EAGLE provides a wide range
of IT services in support of the IT solutions requirements of the Chief
Information Officer (CIO) within the DHS. There are two groups of prime
contractors under the EAGLE contract: 1) small businesses, eligible to compete
for all task orders; and (2) large businesses, eligible to compete only on
solicitations issued on an unrestricted basis in the following five
comprehensive functional categories (FCs) of service under EAGLE:
• FC1 – Infrastructure Engineering Design, Development, Implementation and Integration
• FC2 – Operations and Maintenance
• FC3 – Independent Test, Validation, Verification, and Evaluation
• FC4 – Software Development
• FC5 – Management Support Services
The discussion included the differences between a formal OMB Designated GWAC that is exempt from the Economy Act, a MAC run under a “franchise fund”, and an Agency–specific ID/IQ contract that is not exempt by the Economy Act.
The three GWACs run by NITAAC under the just renewed OMB Executive Agency Designation are:
• Fast, Easy and Convenient for the customer
• Low contract access fees
• Solution based contracts
• Non-protestable task orders
• Dual levels of competition
• Pre-qualified pool of contractors
• Section 803 met through fair opportunity
• Worldwide coverage
• Flexibility in adding subcontractors and teaming arrangements
• Full spectrum of contract types
• Availability to all federal agencies
• Exempt from the Economy Act
è GSA’s New Approach to GWACs—Industry’s Perspective Open Discussion
and Overall Impact
The IAC had a spirited discussion concerning the current Federal acquisition environment including a mutual awareness that increased oversight by OMB and governance by NITAAC were a natural expectation in view of current events.
è Open Discussion/Potential Agenda Items for the Next Meeting
The next IAC Meeting will be held on Thursday, September
21, 2006 from
10:00 A.M.–11:30 A.M.
The IAC will, at a minimum, discuss the final agenda for the NITAAC Vendors Business Meeting, planned webinar, and the subcommittee minutes as presented by each Subcommittee Chairperson, and the ongoing efforts of the NITAAC Outreach and Education Team at our next meeting.
In preparation for the Vendors Business Meeting, all NITAAC Contractor Primes should be solicited to suggest agenda items for the business meeting.
The agenda for the Vendors Business Meeting would include items specific to each individual NITAAC contract (CIO-SP2i, IW2nd, and ECS III).
There will also be agenda items common to all three contracts. These will include contract changes resulting from OMB mandates to NIH/NITAAC on its GWACs such as: contract modifications on EVMS reporting, HSPD-12, or on other Federal acquisition environment changes mandating unilateral modifications on the current contracts.
There was discussion concerning inviting a keynote guest speaker to address the group on a topic of interest to all. All agreed that having a guest speaker was a potential draw to the meeting.
Your input is requested on any new agenda items for the next IAC meeting, and for the next NITAAC business meeting in October. Please propose any 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 or
Victor Powers, powersv@od.nih.gov.
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Please note
the next IAC Meeting will be on the third
Thursday in September Thursday,
September 21, 2006 from 10:00 A.M.–11:30 A.M.