NITAAC Industry Advisory Council
(IAC) Meeting
Wednesday April 19, 2006
Bldg.
Conference Room 6D01
3:30 P.M. – 5:00 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
Millicent Manning, NITAAC
Wanda Russell, CO, NITAAC
Timothy Warrington, NITAAC
Mary Alice Johnson, CTS,
NITAAC New Business Support
Belinda Coleman, CTS,
NITAAC New Business Support
Linda Martin, CTS, NITAAC
New Business Support
Nancy Green, CTS, NITAAC
New Business Support
Joanne Connelly, Connelly-Works,
NITAAC New Business Support
Bruce Thorner, NITAAC
Support
Stuart Kramer, NRC, CRA
Esther Burgess, NRC, SI
International
Diane McLaughlin, IAC,
BearingPoint
Jim Terry, IAC, Pyramid
Systems
Dennis Dietrich, IAC, Digicon
Debbie, Rieger, IAC, A-TEK, Inc.
Frank Durso, IAC, SRA
Cindy Kendall, IAC, SAIC
Bill Cratty, IAC, Apptis
Geralynn Franceschini, IAC,
Unisys
The Wednesday April 19, 2006 Meeting Minutes
Follow:
Opening Remarks by Diane Frasier, NIH, IAC Co-Chair
Diane Frasier welcomed
everyone and kicked the meeting off. She
discussed the exceptional turn out at the NCMA World Congress
NITAAC Outreach- Mary Alice Johnson
Mary Alice Johnson from
NITAAC’s outreach program provided an updated list of proposed shows and costs
to NITAAC that are planned for attendance by NITAAC. She briefed also concerning NITAAC’s marketing
results and Diane Frasier’s presentation at the NCMA World Congress held during
the previous week of where approximately 1,500 contracting officers from
Government and Industry attended. The
NITAAC booth was well attended by informed users of Government Contract
vehicles and a great deal of interest in NITAAC’s GWACs resulted. Linda Martin is following-up with each person
who expressed interest in receiving additional information at the NITAAC booth.
Mary Alice provided an
updated list of shows where NITAAC will be exhibiting (see attachment). She highlighted the next couple of shows where
NITAAC is featured to include:
·
The NARA
Conference at the
·
ITS Gov on
July 26th – an end of the year buying event
·
and plans to
support Small Business Week starting in May
Please contact Mary Alice
Johnson if you would like to coordinate any show activities with her at
301.435.4479 or via e-mail at johnsmar@od.nih.gov
Results of NITAAC’s ECS III Focus Group on March
23rd- Bruce Thorner
Bruce Thorner briefed on the
ECS III RFQ system focus group held on March 23rd. The focus group attendees included numerous
Government customer users of ECS III and several contractors who provide
services on this GWAC. In summary, the
system is now ready for deployment.
There were a couple of minor modifications proposed for the system as a
result of the focus group and those enhancements have already been incorporated
into the system in the three weeks since the focus group was held. Among the major ECS III system enhancements are
a new electronic means to exercise the Fair Opportunity to be Considered Process,
to include exceptions, and the new system now allows contractors to attach
proposals rather than typing them in the system.
All attendees remarked on
the quality of the focus group session presentation and organization of the
focus group. It was well organized!
Proposed Agenda Items for IAC Subcommittees- Lead Rusty
Wall
Geralynn Franceschini – Chair
of Marketing Subcommittee briefed on the status future agenda items and results
of the marketing subcommittee meeting held on April 13th.Geralyn distributed
her written minutes (see attached Marketing Subcommittee meeting minutes).
Diane McLaughlin – Chair
of the Programs Subcommittee briefed on the status of the Programs Subcommittee
meeting held in April. Their focus will
include less of a marketing perspective as in the past and more emphasis on
GWAC processes with marketing and education collateral to be provided to the
Marketing Group and subcommittee.
Geralynn Franceschini sitting
in for Dwight Chamberlain Chair of the Government Affairs Subcommittee who
could not attend due to a short notice schedule conflict briefed on the status
of the Government Affairs Subcommittee.
The Government Affairs subcommittee will have an emphasis on the GWAC
environment with a focus on the various GWAC Programs and the political
environment with which the GWACs operate.
In summary, Programs has
determined that it falls within their charter to provide marketing collateral
addressing features of the various NITAAC GWACs to the Marketing Subcommittee (
and the Chairman of the Marketing Subcommittee concurs) and all three subcommittees
determined that there is a strong need to coordinated the actions and agendas of
each with the other two.
The final agenda items for
each of the subcommittees is still in draft and are being coordinated with the
others in order to ensure that there is no duplication. Agenda items for each of the subcommittees
will be discussed again at the next IAC meeting. The IAC will be asked to review
the draft agenda items for the IAC Subcommittees at our next meeting to include
any overlap between items on the Marketing Subcommittee agenda with agenda
items on the Programs Subcommittee’s.
The subcommittee charters
are posted on the NITAAC website. http://NITAAC.nih.gov. Please note that at least one NITAAC
representative volunteered for each of the subcommittees.
Discussion of possible effects/merits of the series
of GWAC articles in GCN- discussion lead Rusty Wall
Here is a link to the latest article in GCN on DHS EAGLE.
One of the
points made in this article is that IDIQ's with "too many Vendors"
are "doomed to mediocrity".
The IAC
discussed the merits of NITAAC’s strategy of providing a large number of
vendors on its multiple GWACs.
All agreed
that NITAAC’s strategy has resulted in excellent customer support and the
highest quality of service.
Victor Powers, NITAAC Program Manager, briefed on
two important topics:
Contract Reports for ECS III, IW2nd, and CIO-SP2i – Millicent Manning, Donald Wilson, Wanda Russell
Millicent Manning reported
an inception to date total on ECS III of
57,427 orders for a total value of $1.1B with the orders for 2006 valued
at $35.4M.
Donald Wilson reported 42
Task Orders on IW2nd with an award
value of $19.8M and an option value of $31.8M and 587 Delivery Orders with a
value of $87.8M.
Wanda Russell briefed that
CIO-SP2i now has 434 awarded Task
Orders with a base year value of $1.6B and an option year value of $5.6B if all
options are exercised.
Open Discussion/Potential Agenda Items for the next
Meeting
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Your input is requested on any new agenda items for the next IAC meeting!!!! Please propose any desired 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.
Please note the proposed
revised dates for the next two IAC Meetings
The May IAC meeting is will be
on Thursday,
May 25, 2006
from 3:00 P.M.–4:00 P.M.
Bldg.
(Please note that this
meeting is scheduled for the
fourth Thursday in May—not
the third Thursday)
The June IAC will be on Thursday,
June 22nd from 10:00 A.M.–11:30 A.M.
(Please note that this meeting is also scheduled
for the fourth Thursday in June—not the third Thursday)