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We Dont Need the Same Contracting Career Field
Leadership that is Commonly Used in Other Career
Fields
Session 1010 Nelson L. Mellitz, CPCM, Fellow,
NE Area Chief Procurement Officer, Internal
Revenue Service April 16, 2008
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The Year 2025

• Retirement Surge
• GSA
• E-Procurement of the Future
• Strategic Sourcing Industry /Government
  Relations
• Ethics and Procurement Integrity

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The Year 2025 (continued)

• Acquisition University one source
• Automated Contracting System one system almost
  ready
• Logistics Enterprise
• AF Awards Another Tanker Contract
• Procurement Reform Al Gore

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Back to the Present

• The Office Environment
• Manager to employees ratio
• - training
• - career progression
• - opportunities
• Why stay in contracting

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Emergency Contracting

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Educating the Next/ Current Generation

• Where/ When
• How
• - availability
• - similar education
• - recurrent training
• Responsibility

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Strategic Sourcing of People

• Concept to Retirement
• - Supplies and Service
• - Professional contracting staff
• Excellence in Contracting Leadership

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Automation

• Common Contracting System/ Integrated Acquisition
  Environment
• Which system
• Who owns the system
• Who updates the system
• Who repairs the system

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Private and Public Working Together

• Automation
• Education
• Transferability of workforce
• Emergencies on call
• Supply management

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Lean and Constraints

• Test
• Time
• Cost
• Risk
• Re-baseline

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Predictions

• Confirming success
• Reducing risk
• Improving workforce
• Improving leadership
• Re-baselining

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Preventing the Unthinkable

• Not responding to an attack
• Not responding to a natural emergency
• Ethics and Procurement Integrity violations
• Be knowledgeable about the new contracting
  (energy, 4th battlefront, etc)
• Re-baselining

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Foundation for Being Smart in Contracting

• Trained and experienced leadership
• Educated and career oriented Professionals
• Industry is not always right/neither is
  Government
• Transform the Infrastructure
• - manage and protect the people first and data
  second
• Continuous communications with inter-changeable
  work between civilian and DoD Agencies
• Public and Private Sectors (domestic and
  international exchanging best practices

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The Year 2025

• There is one Knowledge database accessible to
  all on a website - Federal Acquisition University
  (FAI/DAU)
• There is one automated contracting system - FAU
• Acquisition University has graduated class
• - 2025-A of the next generation, and
• - 2025-B of senior leaders

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The Year 2025 (continued)

• Congress has decided to stay out of the Ethics
  enforcement business.
• Work is transferred electronically between
  agencies and private companies
• Contracting professional are given work according
  to capacity
• We now plan the workforce instead of the work
  planning the force.

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The Year 2025 (continued)

• The people that do the work dont just attend
  classes for certifications but cross communicate
  best practices.
• President Gore takes/create the new procurement
  reform by promoting better use of the Green
  Internet.

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Contact Information

• Nelson L. Mellitz, CPCM, Fellow
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• 212-436-1842
• Nelson.Mellitz_at_IRS.gov
• Villanova University
• 856-278-3041
• NMellitz_at_Comcast.net