NITAAC Industry Advisory Council (IAC)
15 November 2007 MEETING MINUTES
Bldg.
Conference Room 6D01
10:00 A.M.–11:30 A.M.
Attendees:
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Diane J. Frasier, IAC Co-Chair, Acting Director, Office of Acquisition and Logistics Management, Head of the Contracting Activity Antonio
Rodriguez, Acting Associate Director, NIH, OLAO Thomas C. Keith, Acting Program Director, NITAAC keithth@od.nih.gov
Donald Wilson, CO, NITAAC Millicent Manning, CO, NITAAC Tim Warrington, NITAAC IT Manager Rusty Wall, IAC Co-Chair, CSC rwall@csc.com Diane McLaughlin, IAC, BearingPoint Debbie Rieger, IAC,
A-Tek Stuart
Kramer, NRC, SRA Cindy
Kendall, IAC, SAIC Dennis Dietrich, IAC, Digicon Sunil Kolhekar,
IAC, CITI Kevin Cevasco,
Programs Subcommittee, SAIC Rip Singh,
Marketing Subcommittee, BAH Charles Mann, Marketing
Subcommittee, Amdex Kathy O’Keefe, Marketing Subcommittee General Dynamics Info Technology Ron Robinson, NITAAC Support, Noblis |
è Opening Remarks Ms. Diane J. Frasier
IAC Co-Chair, Acting Director,
Office of Acquisition and Logistics Management
Head of the Contracting Activity
Ms. Diane Frasier welcomed everyone to the IAC meeting and introduced Mr. Antonio Rodriguez, the new Acting Associate Director, NIH, OLAO, the NIH Organization that oversees the NITAAC Program. She briefed on his considerable talents, experience, and successes as the former head of NIH’s Division of Logistics Services. Antonio brings over 20 years of experience in acquisition and logistics management in NIH to OLAO. The IAC members then introduced themselves.
è Update on NIH’s New Business System Mr. Thomas C. Keith Acting Director, NITAAC
Tom Keith led a spirited roundtable discussion concerning the move by NIH to the New Business System (NBS). All NITAAC contractors have received contract modifications that provide new invoicing instructions, but the new system is still experiencing internal NIH Office of Financial Management transition issues, as well as NITAAC transition issues, and those were discussed. Based on Tom’s successful implementation of the NBS at his previous NIH assignment, he noted that he intended to immediately bring in additional staff–both additional Government employees and support contractor staff from Noblis–to forcefully address the necessary fixes to internal processes both at NITAAC and at the NIH payment office. He also asked all NITAAC’s vendors to revisit the invoicing instructions and to work with NITAAC’s staff and support contractors as they responded to this difficult transition.
All agreed that it was time for another NITAAC Vendor Business Meeting to be scheduled to address these changes and new processes with all vendors. A tentative date on January or February 2008 was also addressed.
è Discussion
of Industry Projections on Customer GWAC Mr. Rusty Wall Needs/Requirements for the next 10-15 years IAC Co-Chair
Rusty Wall provided a brief update on the Industry Projections of Contract needs over the next 10-15 years by addressing the perceived items missing in the GSA Alliant Contract which plans to provide similar services to all Federal Agencies similar to the services available on NITAAC’s CIO-SP2i contract.
One of the updates/features of Alliant was the built-in linkage of the Alliant SOW with the migration and changes over the performance period in the Federal and Defense Enterprise Architectures.
Another trend in IT Contracts that apparently is not addressed in Alliant: the trend in Government to move to ITIL Models, and the major initiative in the President’s Agenda to inter- and intra-Agency consolidation in the OMB managed Lines of Business Initiatives. These initiates require contract flexibility to accommodate the need for more government-wide, customer-centric services to provide consolidation and interoperability within and across agencies, sectors, and government levels in four models:
o Consolidation in a single agency
o Take on requirements from other Agencies
o Government Owned, Contractor Operated
o Contractor Owned, Contractor operated
è Collaborative
Efforts of Subcommittees in Ms. Diane McLaughlin
Developing GWAC Comparative Analysis Chairwoman of the Programs Subcommittee
Because the discussion of the
NIH NBS took longer than anticipated, Ms. Diane McLaughlin, Programs
Subcommittee Chair, postponed her discussion of the detailed results and
associated analytical roll-up of the comparative analysis of the newly awarded
GSA Alliant GWAC and representative NITAAC GWACs including CIO-SP2i until the next IAC meeting in
December.
è Report on NITAAC Contract Performance
Mr. Donald Wilson, NITAAC Senior Contracting Officer, and Ms. Millicent Manning, NITAAC Senior Contracting Officer, reported on NITAAC contract performance as of the end of October 2007.
• ECS III has an inception-to-date award total of over 67,256 orders for a total value of $1.3B.
• IW2nd has currently awarded 471 Delivery Orders with a value of $71.5M and 43 Task Orders with a base award value of $13.2M and an option value of an additional $21M. For FY07 the number was 3,667 for a total value of $72,958M.
• CIO-SP2i has 522 awarded Task Orders with a base value of $1.7B and an option year value of $6.9B if all options are exercised.
When asked, Mr. Wilson and Ms. Manning reported that the new orders trend over the past year appeared to be down, but that they would report on trends at the December IAC as well as on trends for the final years of the CIO-SP, ECS II, and the IW contracts.
è Next IAC Meeting
The next IAC Meeting will be held on Thursday, December 20,
2007 from 10:00A.M.– 11:30 A.M. in Conference Room 6D01, Bldg.
The IAC will, at a minimum, be presented with and discuss the continuing results of the collaborative efforts of the IAC Programs Subcommittee, lead by Diane McLaughlin, and the Subcommittee’s observations concerning different Federal Agency GWAC contracts.
Additionally, the IAC will be provided an update on NITAAC’s ongoing efforts to work with and find resolutions to the invoice payment challenges presented to NITAAC by NIH’s New Business System.
The IAC will also discuss the process to nominate a new Chairperson for the Government Affairs Subcommittee.
The IAC also plans to discuss starting planning and scheduling of the Vendor Business Meeting early next year.
In addition, NITAAC Contract Performance and the ongoing efforts of the NITAAC Outreach and Education Team will be presented.
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 Thomas Keith, keithth@od.nih.gov.
The December IAC Meeting and
Bldg. 6100 Executive Blvd. Conference Room 6D01