PSC and MiDAESS

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PSC and MiDAESS MEETING WITH HUNTSVILLE
ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BUSINESSES IN ADVANCED
TECHNOLOGY (HASBAT) FEBRUARY 4, 2008
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PSC ROLE IN MiDAESS

• PSC is the single unified voice of the government
  professional services industry all sizes, all
  functions
• PSC/CSA merger effective January 1 now a
  combined membership of over 330 companies
• Advocacy is Our Business
• Soloway and Chvotkin serve as industry "advisors"
  to the MiDAESS Acquisition Strategy Panel NDAs
  are in effect and will be fully respected
• PSC serves as a conduit for comments and input on
  the MiDAESS acquisition from all of industry (PSC
  membership not required)
• PSC may still comment on MDA solicitations

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MidAESS Issues Industry and Competition
Structures

• Industrial Base how to ensure balanced workload
  opportunities
• How to engage Small Business
• How to ensure availability of work to mid-tier
• Cost to compete how much granularity (and cost)
  at MiDAESS level vice task order?
• of winners per contract
• Bidding Flexibility bid all or some area
  capabilities/total SOWS?
• Timing importance of meeting the schedule
• Customer engagement how to ensure customer is on
  board

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MidAESS Issues Small Business

• Dont restrict the entire acquisition to small
  businesses
• Insure contractors retain the ability to team
  with approved subs/small businesses.
• Set aside at least a portion of MiDAESS for small
  business
• Provide opportunities outside the MiDAESS
  competition for 8(a) as sole source.
• Encourage the use of Mentor-Protégé agreements
• Facilitate teaming by providing other business
  POC information to interested businesses
• Mandate subcontracting goals for any unrestricted
  work
• Encourage teaming
• Use 541710 as the NAICS to permit more businesses
  to be small
• Provide opportunities for small companies to act
  as a prime rather than a sub
• Do not place restrictions on teaming
• Allow 13CFR121 methods for JVs and SB team
  proposals

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MidAESS Issues Contract Structure/Vehicle

• No Seaport Model
• Keep the RFP simple no videos
• Consider high cost area adder
• Recommend some GSA or BPA use
• Provide mechanism for FP labor categories vice
  CPAF
• Have 10-15 labor categories w/steps
• Use a LOE vice LTAP structure
• Use multiple contract types (TM, FFP, CP)
• Issue solicitations every two years with awards
  as five year contracts
• Consider on/off ramps for the work to ensure
  continuity
• Keep the MiDAESS acquisition as a rolling program
  with multiple solicitations

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MidAESS Issues Contract Structure/Vehicle (2)

• Use BV approach
• Structure the contracts with a fee based on a
  shared versus common pool
• Have Performance-based contract with a
  performance fee pool
• Allow fee on all costs
• Primes fee decremented based on performance at
  the domain level
• Provide 70 provisional fee during evaluation
  period
• Include ODC CLIN

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MidAESS Issues Contract Structure/Vehicle (3)

• Use six domains
• Business Financial Management
• Logistics Infrastructure Support
• General Administrative
• Science/Innovation
• Programmatic
• Use different NAICS for different functional
  areas/domains
• Allow contractors to choose to propose on
  individual domains vice an all-or-none proposal
  requirement
• Provide a draft RFP - leave it out for comment
  for 30-60 days. Longer eats up too many company
  resources
• Have 1 CPFF SME CLIN (with government approval)
• Bid base team rates for entire team

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MidAESS Issues Task Orders

• Dont compete TOs
• Recommend only limited, if any, competition for
  task orders.
• Ensure COTRs have more authority to order
  services
• Provide incumbency information with RFPs it
  helps them to determine whether to propose
• Balance the SOWs between the contract and task
  order RFPs

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MidAESS Issues OCI

• State OCI requirements per area/contract
• OCI definitions/clarity

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QUESTIONS?

• Alan Chvotkin, Esq.
• Executive Vice President and Counsel
• Professional Services Council
• [phone]
• Chvotkin_at_pscouncil.org
• www.pscouncil.org
• MDAInfo_at_pscouncil.org
• www.pscouncil.org/MDAInfo