NITAAC Industry Advisory
Council (IAC) Meeting
Wednesday November
16, 2005
Bldg.
Conference Room 6D01
10:00 A.M. – 11:30
P.M.
“If you want to be successful, put your
effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.” — Anonymous
Attendees:
Diane Frasier, NIH, IAC Chair
Rusty Wall, CSC, IAC Co-Chair
Esther Burgess,
NAC, SI International
Jeffrey
Westerhoff, NAC, SRA
Stuart Kramer,
NAC, SRA,
Debbie Rieger,
IAC, A-Tek, Inc.
Dennis Dietrich, IAC, DIGICON
Victor Powers, Program Director, NITAAC
Millicent Manning, CO, NITAAC
Donald Wilson, CO, NITAAC
Greg Holliday, Senior CO, NITAAC
Wanda Russell, CO, NITAAC
Bruce Thorner, ASSYST, NITAAC Support
Melissa Scruggs, MITRETEK, NITAAC Support
Joanne Connelly, Connelly-Works, NITAAC Support
Nancy Green, Connelly-Works, NITAAC Support
Mary Alice Johnson, Connelly-Works, NITAAC’s new Business Development, Communications, Outreach, and Education support contractor
1. Opening Remarks by Diane Frasier, NITAAC IAC Chair
Diane Frasier discussed her
goals for reinvigorating NITAAC and the IAC and reaching out to the Federal
Customer community to ensure they know the various strengths of the contracts
managed by NITAAC and incredible value that the NITAAC GWACs bring to the
entire Federal Government.
2. NITAAC Exceptional Service Award
Diane Frasier presented Esther
Burgess from SI International with NITAAC’s exceptional service award for her
over four years of support to NITAAC, including her assistance to NITAAC in
developing a process within NIH to accept DoD MIPRs. This additional program enhancement substantially increased the
value of NITAAC’s contracts to the DoD.
3. IAC Membership and Strategies to Improve Membership Development
All present agreed that we will work to improve contractor participation on the IAC. Accordingly, the chair and co-chair will initiate an outreach program to all CIO-SP2, IW2, and ECS III contractors to invite them to participate in the NITAAC IAC. Please let Rusty Wall or Victor Powers know if you would like to participate.
4.
Status of Vendor
Training on the New RFQ System
Bruce Thorner,
from NITAAC, briefed the IAC on the training that was provided to ECS III contractors
on November 2nd and 4th.
Seventy-three ECS III vendors were briefed representing 45 prime contractors. Nineteen ECS III prime contractors did not
send representatives to the training.
Victor Powers announced that training will start in early 2006 for IW2
vendors on the new IW system.
5.
Status and Discussion
of NITAAC’s Outreach Education Efforts
Mary Alice Johnson
from Connelly-Works will be working onsite at NITAAC to develop the NITAAC
Outreach Program. Her contact information is as follows:
Office phone:
(301) 435-4479
Mobile phone:
(703) 606-2413
E-mail address: johnsmar@od.nih.gov
As a first step,
she has arranged for NITAAC to participate in the following three conferences
with booths and NITAAC representatives:
NIH Tech Expo in
EGOV Security in
AFCEA West in
Please note that
Mary Alice is especially interested to hear from all the NITAAC contractors
about their potential participation in these upcoming conferences. In addition Mary Alice would like input from
all contractors on NITAAC’s three GWACs concerning their suggestions for NITAAC’s 2006 marketing plan, including
participation in 2006 conferences.
Please contact her to provide your recommendations.
6. Planning for the NITAAC Quarterly All Contractors Meeting in January 2006
Victor Powers
discussed NITAAC’s plans for a quarterly meeting in January (date and location
to be announced later) with all NITAAC’s contractors. He is seeking agenda items from you. The current agenda includes the results of
the various internal audits that have been conducted on NITAAC’s GWACs, the
roll out of the new RFQ system to IW2 in the spring of 2006 and the plans for
NITAAC’s Outreach Program for 2006. We
look forward to your input. You may
submit your input to Victor at
Powersv@od.nih.gov
7. Open Discussion
During the open discussion,
all the contractors present at the IAC addressed their observations concerning
the value that NITAAC’s contracts bring to them and to their
government customers. There was a
general discussion on the Federal acquisition environment especially as it
pertains to GSA GWACs, schedules, and other GWACs, as well as the associated
OMB scrutiny of GWACs. All agreed that
NITAAC continues to provide exceptional value and service to Federal Government
customers and their supporting contractors, especially in comparison to the
equivalent contracts run by other agencies. The group also discussed GSA’s ongoing process
for developing the Alliant family of contracts, including the significance to
the market in designating a small business vehicle such as Alliant Small
Business.
All agreed that it was time
for NITAAC to begin planning for the future recompetition of NITAAC’s GWACs.
8.
Report of Contract Performance
for the Last FY and Grand Totals
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CIO-SP2i – Greg Holliday briefed and announced
83 orders last FY totaling $459M not including options—with options $1.2B. Grand total now is 413 orders - $4.9B.
§
Greg noted that after five years of the CIO-SP2, when compared
with its predecessor contract, CIO-SP, the dollar value of the CIO-SP2 T.O.s
was substantially higher than on the predecessor contract; however, CIO-SP2
only had about one-half the number of T.O.s as had been awarded on the earlier
contract after five years.
§
IW2nd – Donald Wilson briefed and announced 4
T.O.s last FY totaling
$663,877.51
not including options—with options $1.7M.
Cumulative to date, there were 37 T.O.s valued at $19.9M not including
options—with options $31.3M.
Additionally,
there were 55 D.O.s last FY totaling $17.3M.
Cumulative to date, there were 439 D.O.s valued at $69.5M.
§
ECS-III – Millicent Manning briefed
and announced 17,039 D.O.s last FY valued at $261M – cumulative numbers on the
contract are now 54,609 D.O.s valued at $1.099B.
9. IAC Membership- Partnership
Diane Frasier
personally expressed her desire to work closely with the IAC and to revive the
partnership that has been so successful for NITAAC and its contractors. She is encouraging additional contractors to
participate in the IAC and bring their ideas for furthering NITAAC’s
partnership and program.
New Agenda items for the next meeting - Your input is requested. Please propose any desired agenda items for our next meeting to Rusty Wall, rwall@csc.com or Victor Powers, powersv@od.nih.gov.
The next meeting is scheduled for:
Thursday, December 15th at 10:00 A.M.
Building 6100, Conference Room 6D01
We look forward to seeing you.