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March 31, 2015
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The Office of Management and Budget now has the
data it needs to reducing its real property
Over the last two years since OMB launched its Freeze the
Footprint policy, the General Services Administration has led an
effort to turn the static Federal Real Property Profile database
into a dynamic tool to help agencies make decisions.
"When we launched the new inventory under that executive
order, we added new data elements to get us much smarter
about inventory management. Things like, what is the utilization
rate of each building? What is the condition of each building?
What is the cost of each building? What is the mission relevance
of each building?" said Danny Werfel, the previous OMB
controller who launched the Freeze the Footprint initiative, and
now is a director with the Boston Consulting Group.
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VA FSS CHANGES
NOTICE OF CHANGE TO CLAUSE 552.238-74 - REGARDING
DISTRIBUTION AND PRICING AGREEMENTS (DAPA)
Clause 552.238-74, Industrial Funding Fee and Sales Reporting
requires that FSS contractors submit, quarterly, the dollar value (in
U.S. dollars and rounded to the nearest whole dollar) of all sales
under the contract during the preceding 3-month period, to
include any partial month. This process is currently completed online through the VA Sales Reporting System.
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DPAP Issues Class Deviation on
Contractor Records
Rear Admiral (RADM) Althea Coetzee,
Acting Director of Defense
Procurement and Acquisition Policy
(DPAP), issued a class deviation that
adds a new clause to DoD contracts.
The new clause will be added to all
contracts awarded prior to December
19, 2017 and valued at more than
$100,000 that are performed in the
US Central Command Theater of
Operations (USCENTCOM). The clause
gives the DoD greater access to
records of contractors and
subcontractors in order to prevent
corruption and ensure that funds are
not being illegally diverted to criminal
organizations.
Source: CGP
One of the questions we most often receive is "I have a DAPA, do I
need to report those sales on my quarterly sales report?" If your
firm has a DAPA with the Department of Defense, you will be
required to submit IFF under the VA FSS Contract for all 65IB and
Service Schedule (621 I, 621 II and 66 III) sales. If your firm has a
DAPA with the Department of Defense for any Non-65IB or Service
Schedule requirements, you will not report the DAPA sales against
your FSS contract unless an order is issued against a VA FSS
Contract Number starting with V797P or V797D. Additionally, FSS
inclusive sales will apply to all direct and any eligible Agency Prime
Vendor sales. For Prime Vendor sales the contract number will be
cited in the related chargeback transaction.
Additionally, all sales issued against a FSS contract starting with
V797P or V797D to agencies other than the VA, state & local
governments, and direct-to-patient distribution must be reported.
Direct all FSS sales reporting & IFF remittance questions to the VA
Sales Desk.
To read more about this Change please click here
More GSA Schedule Migration Information
The Gormley Group spoke with Kim McFall out in Auburn about a
GSA Advantage delay I was facing and she indicated that all
migrated contracts must be registered with GSA Advantage just
like any new offer in order to have access to GSA eBuy. I think a
lot of vendors forgot that step and many were calling her about
not having access, so the contract must be registered with GSA
Vendor Support at the following link:
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Top 10 Large/Small Contractors on Schedule 70
(Information Technology) in 2014
LARGE
CELLCO PARTNERSHIP (DBA: Verizon Wireless)
$546,552,295
DELL MARKETING L.P.
$524,565,410
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES
$519,266,539
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC
$381,559,773
MANDATORY SPENDING IN
2014
INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR, INC.
$284,358,890
DLT SOLUTIONS, LLC
$265,776,600
In FY2014, mandatory spending
accounted for nearly 60% of total
federal spending and over
12% of GDP. Social Security alone
accounted for 24% of federal
spending. Medicare and the
federal share of Medicaid, the fastest
growing components of mandatory
spending, together
accounted for 26% of federal
spending. Therefore, spending on
Social Security, Medicare, and
Medicaid made up nearly 50% of total
federal spending. The composition of
mandatory spending has changed
significantly over the past 40 years. In
1962, before the creation of Medicare
and Medicaid, mandatory spending
was less than 30% of all federal
spending. At that time, Social Security
accounted for about 13% of total
federal spending or about half of all
mandatory spending.
CGI FEDERAL INC.
$203,436,973
SRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
$199,035,147
SOFTCHOICE CORPORATION
$186,649,452
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.
$178,450,085
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SMALL
MYTHICS, INC.
$617,788,496
CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
$553,665,321
IMMIXTECHNOLOGY, INC.
$249,723,356
EC AMERICA, INC.
$169,420,691
ESCGOV, INC.
$96,974,016
EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, L
$92,019,463
TERREMARK FEDERAL GROUP, LLC
$82,301,788
BART & ASSOCIATES, INC.
$65,624,407
FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.
$60,459,241
IRON BOW TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
$58,870,292
Source: SSQ Data
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OFPP fixing unintended consequences of 1990s
procurement reform
The federal government's procurement system is not designed for
optimal performance.
That was the understatement of the week by Anne Rung, the
administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Defense Department spending
drops $24 billion in 2014
Defense Department spending fell $23.7
billion — or nearly 8 percent — in fiscal
2014 even as civilian agencies saw
increases in overall spending.
Federal governmentwide contract
spending fell $17 billion in fiscal 2014,
according to data obtained from the
Federal Procurement Data System.
Overall spending fell from $462 billion in
fiscal 2013 to $445 billion in 2014,
according to the data. Contract spending
has fallen the last several years — about
17 percent since fiscal 2011 — down
from a height of $539 billion.
But while overall contract spending fell,
most civilian agencies bucked the trend.
Spending at the Department of
Homeland Security, Health and Human
Services Department and NASA all
increased in fiscal 2014. The Veterans
Affairs Department and the Social
Security Administration also saw
increases in spending.
But Rung, who was speaking at the quarterly President's
Management Advisory Board meeting in Washington Friday, wasn't
just complaining about the situation that has led to more than 3,300
contracting offices across the world, huge price discrepancies among
agencies when buying similar goods and services, and huge
duplication across the government.
"I think a lot of well-intentioned acquisition reform legislation has
had some unintended consequences," Rung said. "At one point, in
Reinventing Government, they called for an end to government
monopolies and they were talking about different functional areas.
But one of the areas they were referring to was the General Services
Administration being the sole entity to purchase IT acquisitions. So,
they wanted to bring that authority back to the agencies. One of the
unintended consequences was that we have this massive
proliferation of duplicative contracts across government. So, we now
have this model that we have to do something with."
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Budgets Signal Sequester Cuts Here to Stay
WASHINGTON — What to do about sequestration is one issue House
and Senate negotiators can skip as they craft a compromise 2016
federal budget blueprint.
That's because spending resolutions approved last week by the
House and Senate both leave the across-the-board budget cuts in
place for defense and domestic programs.
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84 contracts awarded on rereleased SEWP V
After pulling back the awards announced in October to deal
with a slew of protests, NASA's Solutions for Enterprise Wide
Procurement (SEWP) V contract is back, with 84 companies
making it onto the GWAC under the final award, announced
Wednesday.
The contracts announced include 36 suppliers of computerbased systems (Group A) and 48 for networking, security, video
and conferencing (Group D).
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More: Full list of Group A and D awards
The SEWP program office pulled back the awards late last year
to respond to detailed protests.
"We dealt with a few directly, went looking at the other ones
and realized we needed to do a clarification," Program Manager
Joanne Woytek said in a recent interview with Federal Times.
"So we pulled back the awards at that point in time and rather
than trying to respond via protest, we are going through an
updated selection."
The rereleased awards include four more contracts than the
original release.
"SEWP V contracts streamline the process of providing federal
agencies with state-of-the-art tablets, desktops and servers; IT
peripherals; network equipment; storage systems; security
tools; software products; cloud-based services; video
conferencing systems; and other IT and audio-visual products;
as well as related services such as installation, training and
maintenance," the SEWP program office said in a release
Wednesday.
The GWAC currently offers the lowest fee of any large IT
procurement vehicle, at a fixed 0.39 percent.
The contracts have a $20 billion ceiling and a 10-year ordering
period with an optional five-year add-on.
Source: Federal Times
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A recent press release from FEMA highlights the need to keep
your System for Award Management (SAM) record current,
complete and accurate: The notice on March 25, 2015
announced that Federal funds for the repair or replacement of
damaged facilities related to the State of Emergency declared
in New Hampshire due to snowstorms are now available but
only to those who are eligible to work with FEMA. In disaster
situations, where response is often needed quickly, getting
contract compliance elements in line may take longer than
situation requires. In their “Doing Business with FEMA”
section, they list a current SAM record as the first requirement
for ensuring that a Vendor’s capabilities are made available to
the agency. Interested contractors can also submit a
completed FEMA Profile to the Industry Liaison Support
Center. Details on the federal disaster aid programs available
under President Obama's disaster declaration issued for the
State of New Hampshire are available here:
A connected subject, GSA’s Disaster Purchasing Program
allows state and local governments to buy supplies and
services directly from all GSA Schedules to facilitate recovery
from major disaster or facilitate disaster preparation and
response. To brush up on the requirements for participating in
that program go to:
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