Ongoing Initiatives &Contracting Impacts

17 September 2009

Ms. Joy WhiteDirector of Contracting

Space and Missile Systems Center

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Outline

Opening Remarks

MIRTs & Peer Reviews

Incentives

Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI)

Questions

This Briefing Is Unclassified

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Opening Remarks

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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

• Review Occurrences Pre ASP/AP Pre RFP Pre ENs or Competitive Range Pre FPR Pre Award

• Focus Areas for Critical Decision Points Consistency Clarity Reasonableness

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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

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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

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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

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QUESTIONS???