Spring 2004
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Maj. Paul Olsen with Acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee.

     

Shawn Holsinger and Janet Kim were honored in March for work on performance-based contracting.

Acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee commended three Army staff members in March for their success in implementing the Guaranteed Fixed Price Remediation (GFPR) Business Initiative Council (BIC) initiative.

Brownlee recognized the accomplishments of Maj. Paul B. Olsen, of the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (ACSIM), Janet Kim, of the U.S. Army Environmental Center Environmental Cleanup Division, and Shawn Holsinger, formerly of the ACSIM office and the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), as he presented Olsen's award March 11 at the Pentagon.

Kim received her certificate from BIC Executive Director Donald Tison March 8. Holsinger will receive his award in front of Air Force staff. All received certificates of commendation signed by Tison, Army G8 (Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs).

A form of performance-based contracting, GFPR shifts financial responsibility to the contractor while the Army retains environmental liability and remediation oversight. Tison's office reports a $32.9 million cost avoidance to date, and projects a $280 million cost avoidance for fiscal 2004-2009.

Olsen championed the GFPR initiative through the Army and Department of Defense staffs, gaining Secretary of Defense approval Nov. 12, 2002.

With this approval, the Army established the GFPR BIC implementation team including Kim, who became the Base Realignment and Closure GFPR subject matter expert and the execution agent for the initiative, and Holsinger, whose extensive experience working active-installation TRADOC GFPRs was instrumental to the success of the initiative. Today, GFPR serves as one method in the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management's performance-based contracting initiative for environmental remediation.

The Department of Defense BIC works to improve efficiency of DoD business operations by identifying and implementing business reforms and allocating savings to higher priority efforts.

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