NITAAC Industry Advisory Council Meeting Minutes

NITAAC Industry Advisory Council (IAC)

MEETING MINUTES

Bldg. 6100 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD

Conference Room 6D01

Thursday, January 18, 2007, 10:00 A.M.–11:30 A.M.

Attendees:

Victor E. Powers, NITAAC Program Director, powersv@od.nih.gov

Greg Holliday, CO, NITAAC

Donald Wilson, CO, NITAAC

Wanda Russell, CO, NITAAC

Joycelyn Bacchus, CO, NITAAC

Rusty Wall, IAC Co-Chair, CSC rwall@csc.com

Geralynn Franceschini, IAC, Unisys

Frank Durso, IAC, SRA

Cindy Kendall, IAC, SAIC

Sunil Kolhekar, IAC, Citi-US

Dwight Chamberlain, IAC, Unisys

Dennis Dietrich, IAC, Digicon

Bill Cratty, IAC, Apptis

Eric Stalfort, Marketing Subcommittee, InfoPro

Charles Mann, Marketing Subcommittee, Amdex

Trayci Koppie, Marketing Subcommittee, Apogen

The Thursday, January 18^th 2007 Meeting Minutes Follow:

è Opening Remarks Mr. Victor E. Powers
NITAAC Program Director

Victor Powers welcomed everyone to the IAC meeting on behalf of Diane Frasier.

è SBA Recent FAR Changes Related to Mr. Victor E. Powers
Business Size NITAAC Program Director

Victor Powers distributed a Government Computer News article on the subject and lead a discussion of the impact of the FAR change to NITAAC’s contracts. In a nutshell, the FAR change, effective on 30 June 2007, will require NITAAC’s Prime Contractors, who are small businesses, to recertify their business size after the completion of five years for each of the three NITAAC GWACs, or at the exercise of contract options by NITAAC. Prime Contractors are encouraged to contact their NITAAC CO for specifics on dates and implementation details as the effective date approaches. Additionally, the discussion extended to the topic of the annual reporting by Prime Contractors of their achievement of small business goals. NITAAC plans to continue to require both paper and electronic reporting of small business utilization due to implementation issues with the new online ESRS system.

è Update on the Federal Electronic Challenge Mr. Donald Wilson
Program (EPEAT) and NITAAC Surveys Sr. Contracting Officer, NITAAC

Donald Wilson briefed the IAC on the progress to date of the EPEAT Program. Ms. Millicent Manning, NITAAC Senior Contracting Officer is representing NITAAC on a NIH committee addressing the EPEAT initiative. By logging in to http://www.epeat.net both customers and vendors can see that, to date, over 350 items, primarily desktops, notebooks and monitors are EPEAT Certified as Bronze and over 300 are certified as Silver or better. None, as yet, are certified as Gold.

As a recap, Bronze indicates that all 23 required criteria are met and Silver certifies that not only are all 23 required criteria met, but at least 50% of the 28 optional criteria in 8 categories are met as well. To achieve Gold the optional criteria percentage increases to 75%.

è NITAAC’s Outreach/Upcoming Shows Request for Mr. Victor E. Powers
Comments NITAAC Program Director

Victor Powers distributed a revised draft of the 2007 Upcoming Tradeshows for comment. IAC council members are encouraged to contact Victor Powers with any suggested additional shows or changes to the draft schedule by the end of January. Click here to view a draft of the 2007 Upcoming Tradeshows.

è Collaborative Efforts of Subcommittees in Mr. Donald Wilson and
Developing GWAC Comparative Analysis Mr. Eric Stalfort

On behalf of Ms. Diane McLaughlin, Programs Subcommittee chair, Mr. Donald Wilson and Mr. Eric Stalfort from the Programs Subcommittee led a roundtable discussion exhibiting results to date from a draft comparative analysis of current, past, and future GWAC contracts, and representative Agency ID/IQ MACs.

è Discussion/Status of IAC Subcommittees

– Marketing Ms. Geralynn Franceschini

– Programs Mr. Eric Stalfort and Mr. Donald Wilson

– Government Affairs Mr. Dwight Chamberlain

Each of the Subcommittee Chairs reported on the status of their subcommittee efforts. Click here for the Marketing Subcommittee meeting minutes for January 2007.

è Report on NITAAC Contract Performance

Mr. Greg Holliday and Mr. Donald Wilson, Senior Contracting Officers, NITAAC, reported on NITAAC contract performance as of the end of December 2006.

• ECS III has an inception-to-date total of 61,852 orders for a total value of $1.2B.

• IW2nd has currently awarded 476 Delivery Orders with a value of $71.5M, and 43 Task Orders valued at $31.6M.

• CIO-SP2i has 484 awarded Task Orders with a base value of $1.6B and an option year value of $6.5B if all options are exercised.

è Open Discussion/Potential Agenda Items for the Next Meeting

The next IAC Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 20th from 2:00 P.M.–3:30 P.M in Bldg. 6100 Executive Blvd., in Conference Room 6D01. The IAC will, at a minimum, discuss the results of the collaborative efforts of the subcommittees on the GWAC comparative analysis and the subcommittee minutes as presented by each Subcommittee Chairperson, NITAAC Contract Performance, New Far rules related to T&M task orders and the ongoing efforts of the NITAAC Outreach and Education Team.

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 input to: Rusty Wall, rwall@csc.com and/or
Victor Powers, powersv@od.nih.gov