SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston Contracts Update

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SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston Contracts
Update

• Donna Murphy
• Chief Operating Officer
• April 17, 2008

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TOPICS

• Navy-ERP Status Update
• Charleston Industry Council Initiatives
• Procurement Status
• National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008

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Navy ERP

• ASN RDA Memo dtd 21 MAR 2008
• NAVAIRSYSCOM implementation efforts being
  stabilized
• Deployment Plan Restructured
• OCT 2008 -- NAVSUPSYSCOM (IAW current schedule)
• OCT 2009 -- SPAWARSYSCOM
• SPAWARSYSCOM
• Data conversion efforts continue
• Operational assistance to NAVSUP

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Charleston Industry Council

• Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
• Standard language in RFPs Compliance with SSC
  Charlestons Engineering Process Office (EPO)
  program. Contractors to use processes and
  procedures already established for the
  project/program, and deliver products that are
  compliant with those processes/procedures.
• Software Process Improvement Initiative (SPII)
• Standard language in RFPs Task order level
  Software Development Plan (CDRL) SDP modeled
  after IEEE/EIA Std 12207
• General Software Improvement Processes
• SDP Specific to Sample Task

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Charleston Industry Council (Contd)

• Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
• Automated means of Performance Monitoring
  Measuring
• Data Collection Issues
• Quarterly vs Monthly?
• N-ERP Impact?
• Market Research
• Working Group Analyzing Processes to Recommend
  More Effective Methods For Conducting Industry
  Capability Research

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Contract Status
FEB - Mid-APR 08 CONTRACT AWARDS (GT 8M)
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• RFPs In Process (Issued or Under Eval)

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• RFPs In Process (Issued or Under Eval) (Contd)

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RFPs Pending
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RFPs Pending (Contd)
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National Defense Appropriation Act for FY 2008

• Sec. 843. Enhanced competition requirements for
  task and delivery order contracts.
• Amends 10 U.S.C. 2304a(d) to prohibit awarding
  a task or delivery order contract in an amount
  estimated to exceed 100,000,000 (including all
  options) to a single source, unless the agency
  head determines in writing that
• (1) the task or delivery orders expected under
  the contract are so integrally related that only
  a single source can reasonably perform the work
• (2) the contract provides only for firm, fixed
  price task orders or delivery orders for--
• (a) products for which unit prices are
  established in the contract or
• (b) services for which prices are established in
  the contract for the specific tasks to be
  performed
• (3) only one source is qualified and capable
  of performing the work at a reasonable price to
  the government or
• (4) because of exceptional circumstances, it
  is necessary in the public interest to award the
  contract to a single source.
• Requires agency head to notify Congress within 30
  days after making such a determination.

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National Defense Appropriation Act for FY 2008
(Contd)

• Sec. 843. Enhanced competition requirements for
  task and delivery order contracts.
• Amends 10 U.S.C. 2304c to mandate, for a task
  or delivery order contract in excess of
  5,000,000, that the requirement for all awardees
  under a multiple award contract to be afforded a
  fair opportunity to compete (under 2304c(b)) is
  not met unless such awardees are provided, at a
  minimum
• (1) a notice of the task or delivery order
  that includes a clear statement of the agency's
  requirements
• (2) a reasonable period of time to provide a
  proposal in response to the notice
• (3) disclosure of the significant factors
  and subfactors, including cost or price, that the
  agency expects to consider in evaluating such
  proposals, and their relative importance
• (4) in the case of an award that is to be
  made on a best value basis, a written statement
  documenting the basis for the award and the
  relative importance of quality and price or cost
  factors and
• (5) an opportunity for a post-award
  debriefing.
• A protest is not authorized in connection with
  the issuance or proposed issuance of a task or
  delivery order except for-- (a) a protest on the
  ground that the order increases the scope,
  period, or maximum value of the contract under
  which the order is issued or (b) a protest of an
  order valued in excess of 10,000,000.
• The Comptroller General of the United States
  shall have exclusive jurisdiction of protests.
  This provision begins on May 28, 2008, and will
  be in effect for three year.

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National Defense Appropriation Act for FY 2008
(Contd)

• Sec. 844. Public disclosure of justification and
  approval documents for noncompetitive contracts.
• Amends 10 U.S.C. 2304 to require a
  Justification Approval (JA) that supports the
  use of other than competitive procedures to be
  made publicly available on the agency website and
  through a government-wide website selected by the
  Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy,
  unless that JA is exempt from public disclosure
  under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5
  U.S.C. 552(b)). A JA that is not exempt from
  public disclosure under FOIA must be made
  publicly available within 14 days after the
  noncompetitive contract award, unless it is an
  urgency JA, which does not need to be made
  publicly available until 30 days after the
  noncompetitive contract award.

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National Defense Appropriation Act for FY 2008
(Contd)

• Implementation Strategies
• Multiple Award Approach
• RFPs may include language limiting anticipated
  number of awardees
• E-Commerce tool for conducting Task Order
  competitions
• Reduce Scope to LT 100M if appropriate
• Pursue Waiver through OSD/ASN for Single Award
  Approach
• Definitive Contract (C) Type vs IDTC
• Single Source Funds
• To date, no implementing guidance has been
  received.
• Resources focused on completing evaluations on
  closed RFPs in order to award prior to effective
  date.
• No known grandfathering of requirements in
  process.