The NSSC Procurement Office is a full service procurement activity providing acquisition management services to each field center within the Agency.  Our core services include the award and administration of: grants and cooperative agreements, Phase I & II SBIR and STTR contracts, Agency-wide contracts (predominately information technology services and consolidated software license agreements), and on-site training purchases.  Our Contracting Officers currently administer over 6,000 active contractual instruments with a portfolio value of over $5.4 Billion. In FY10, The NSSC Procurement Office obligated over $1.05 Billion of funding on behalf of the Agency.

Our organization also assists the HQs Office of Procurement by providing operational support for the Government purchase card program, 1102 (contract specialist) training program, FAC-C  and FAC-COTR certification programs, strategic sourcing initiative, and CAAS verification and validation program.

 Mission, Vision, and Strategic Goals
Mission:  Deliver optimal business solutions meeting NASA’s mission.
Vision:  Acquisition excellence in an evolving environment.

Strategic Goal 1:  Develop and maintain a balanced workforce strategy.
Strategic Goal 2:  Enhance the development of procurement professionals.
Strategic Goal 3:  Ensure procurement policy is required, clear and easily implemented.
Strategic Goal 4:  Improve procurement by fully integrating people, processes and requirements to meet Agency needs.
Strategic Goal 5:  Ensure an efficient and sustainable electronic tool set that is useful and used.
Strategic Goal 6:  Forge strategic alliances, internal and external, that will enable continuous improvement of the acquisition function.

Procurement Leadership Team
Procurement Officer:  Michael Sweigart, (228) 813-6342, e-mail:  michael.l.sweigart@nasa.gov

Chief, Procurement Operations Branch Chief:  Ed Wallace, (228) 813-6710, e-mail: edward.v.wallace@nasa.gov

• Lead, Agency Contracting Team, Eli Ouder, (228) 813-6168, e-mail: eli.c.ouder@nasa.gov
• Lead, I3P Contracts Anna Lann, (228) 813-6411, e-mail: anna.o.lann@nasa.gov
  
  Chief, Research Activities Branch Chief:  Monique Sullivan, (228) 813-6134 , e-mail: monique.sullivan-1@nasa.gov
  • Lead, Grants and Cooperative Agreements Team: Ben Benvenutti, (228) 813-6128, e-mail: benjamin.s.benvenutti@nasa.gov
  • Lead, SBIR/STTR Team: Cassandra Williams, (228) 813-6271, e-mail: cassandra.williams@nasa.gov
  Small Business Specialist: Robert Watts (228) 813-6577, e-mail: robert.e.watts@nasa.gov
  
  NSSC Procurement Division - Listing of Civil Service Procurement Staff
  
  Service Descriptions, Chargeback Rates, and Metrics
  
  FY2011 Services Catalog:  Catalog provides service descriptions, chargeback rate, unit of measure, and service level indicators for each NSSC service.
  
  Performance and Utilization Report:  Monthly report tracks the NSSC’s performance against established service level indicators along with utilization data for each service performed.
   

  Fiscal Year 10 Procurement Office Achievements

  
  Workload Statistics
  •    Awarded 1,871 new grants and cooperative agreements
  •    Executed 5,751 grant and cooperative agreement supplements
  •    Awarded 409 Phase I SBIR/STTR contracts and 191 Phase II SBIR/STTR contracts
  •    Executed 1,038 SBIR/STTR contract modifications
  •    Administered 73 Agency-wide contracts and agreements
  •    Awarded 799 internal training purchases
  •    Processed 115 FAC-C and 419 FAC-COTR certifications
  
  2010 NSSC Contract Specialists of the Year
  •    Grants and Cooperative Agreements: Ben Benvenutti
  •    SBIR and STTR Contracts: Rosa Fletcher
  •    Procurement Leadership Team: Eli Ouder
  •    Agency Contracting: Michelle Dalmado
  •    Agency Procurement Services: Suzanne Honeycutt
  

Federal Business Opportunities Website - Single government point-of-entry for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.

NASA Acquisition Internet Service  - NAIS is a World Wide Web service, from which industry has immediate access to current acquisition information over the Internet. Users may subscribe to receive email notifications on acquisitions of interest.

Grants.gov -Website managed by the Department of Health and Human Services for finding and applying  for federal grants.

NSSC Small Business Assistance - Information for small businesses interested in doing business with the NSSC.

OSBP - Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) at NASA Headquarters is responsible for the development and management of NASA programs that assists all categories of small business.

Patents and Licenses - Listing of NASA patents available for licensing.

NASA Tech Brief - Engineering solutions for design and manufacturing.