Transcript Briefing Slide Template - afcea

Ongoing Initiatives &
Contracting Impacts
17 September 2009
Ms. Joy White
Director of Contracting
Space and Missile Systems Center
Outline
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Opening Remarks
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MIRTs & Peer Reviews
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Incentives
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Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI)
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Questions
This Briefing Is Unclassified
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Opening Remarks
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Multi-Functional Independent
Review Team (MIRT)
• Charter
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Provide CAA feedback on
quality of clearance action
Required for competitive
awards >$50M
• Focus Areas for Critical
Decision Points
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Consistency
Clarity
Reasonableness
• Team Composition
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Technical
Legal
Contracting
Others as applicable
• Review Occurrences
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Pre ASP/AP
Pre RFP
Pre ENs or Competitive Range
Pre FPR
Pre Award
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Peer Reviews
• Policy Objectives
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Ensure COs implement policy &
regulations consistent &
appropriate manner
Continue to improve quality of
contracting process
Facilitate cross-sharing of best
practices & lessons learned
• Applicability
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Contracts $1B or more
• Team Composition
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Senior DOD contracting leaders
& members of the Office of
General Counsel
• Review Occurrences
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Competitive - Prior to issuance
of solicitation, final proposal
revisions, & contract award
Sole source - At pre and post
business clearance phases
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Incentives
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Moving away from Award Fee contracts
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Moving toward all objective incentives
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Use of negative incentives is on the rise – holding
contractors accountable for acquisition outcomes
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If an award fee contract is utilized - encouraged to use
base fee
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Looking at prohibiting rollover of award fee &
provisional payments
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OCI
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We are seeing very restrictive interpretations that go
beyond existing regulatory language
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Concern regarding ability to have effective competition
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Awaiting regulatory language that clarifies ability to
mitigate
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Currently using an OCI Panel, corporate wide-plans
and open communication to minimize potential impacts
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QUESTIONS???
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