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Ongoing Initiatives & Contracting Impacts 17 September 2009

Ongoing Initiatives & Contracting Impacts 17 September 2009. Ms. Joy White Director of Contracting Space and Missile Systems Center. Outline. Opening Remarks MIRTs & Peer Reviews Incentives Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) Questions This Briefing Is Unclassified.

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Ongoing Initiatives & Contracting Impacts 17 September 2009

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  1. Ongoing Initiatives &Contracting Impacts17 September 2009 Ms. Joy White Director of Contracting Space and Missile Systems Center

  2. Outline • Opening Remarks • MIRTs & Peer Reviews • Incentives • Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) • Questions This Briefing Is Unclassified

  3. Opening Remarks

  4. Multi-Functional IndependentReview Team (MIRT) • Charter • Provide CAA feedback on quality of clearance action • Required for competitive awards >$50M • Team Composition • Technical • Legal • Contracting • Others as applicable • Focus Areas for Critical Decision Points • Consistency • Clarity • Reasonableness • Review Occurrences • Pre ASP/AP • Pre RFP • Pre ENs or Competitive Range • Pre FPR • Pre Award

  5. Peer Reviews • Policy Objectives • Ensure COs implement policy & regulations consistent & appropriate manner • Continue to improve quality of contracting process • Facilitate cross-sharing of best practices & lessons learned • Team Composition • Senior DOD contracting leaders & members of the Office of General Counsel • Review Occurrences • Competitive - Prior to issuance of solicitation, final proposal revisions, & contract award • Sole source - At pre and post business clearance phases • Applicability • Contracts $1B or more

  6. Incentives • Moving away from Award Fee contracts • Moving toward all objective incentives • Use of negative incentives is on the rise – holding contractors accountable for acquisition outcomes • If an award fee contract is utilized - encouraged to use base fee • Looking at prohibiting rollover of award fee & provisional payments

  7. OCI • We are seeing very restrictive interpretations that go beyond existing regulatory language • Concern regarding ability to have effective competition • Awaiting regulatory language that clarifies ability to mitigate • Currently using an OCI Panel, corporate wide-plans and open communication to minimize potential impacts

  8. QUESTIONS???

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