Strategic Acquisition Council Meeting Topics
March 18, 2009
- The SAC Charter was finally executed! Copies were
passed out and will be posted on the intranet.
- It appears that a third of the OAs have their own D&B
contract. The other OAs don’t have a contract, but would like to use their
services. We will do a DOT-wide D&B contract so that we can take advantage of
volume discounts. I will have Ames Owens in my office pursue this.
- Cassandra Wells discussed the “Framework for Assessing
the Acquisition Function” taskings that we need to do in FY09 in DOT. We did
a pilot assessment within the OST Contracting Office and then we had
contractor develop a self-assessment and methodology for rolling the
assessment out to DOT. OSPE is still finalizing the strategy.
- Jack Schreibman provided an update of the Acquisition
Workforce Working Group. The group is making good progress toward its goals.
They will have two focus groups in April----one for newer contract specialists
and one for more experienced contract specialists.
- We held a Contract Closeout Conference on March 4 in
conjunction with OCFO. Contract closeout plans are due on Apr 27 to OSPE.
- OFPP has been tasked with developing a formula to
right-size the acquisition workforce. They asked for some help in how best to
incorporate a complexity factor. We had a robust discussion on this topic and
gave OFPP some ideas in this area.
Attendees:
Joanie Newhart,
OST
Dorothy Beard, OST
Camille Reddick, OST
Jack Schreibman, MARAD
Charles Nurse, FRA
Laura Birkhimer, PHMSA
Warren Osterberg, PHMSA
James Harper, Jr., FTA
Sonya Harmon, FMCSA
Bill Chang, RITA
Cassandra Wells, OST
Becky Pennington, NHTSA
Ross Jeffries, NHTSA