Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration American Recovery and Reinvestment...

Federal Acquisition Service

U.S. General Services Administration

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Conference

March 5, 2009

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Conference

March 5, 2009

Technology and TelecommunicationsTechnology and Telecommunications


Agenda

Overview of Integrated Technology Services GWACS Schedule 70 Connections MAC SmartBuy Q&A

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How FAS Can Help

GWACs: Offer streamlined options for Contracting Officers who need to quickly acquire IT services and solutions in an effective manner, while still adhering to all federal acquisition regulations.

• Premier IT contractor pool • Reduced acquisition lead time

• Contract in place • Streamlined ordering process

• Competition through “Fair Opportunity” process• Flexibility

• Broad IT scope• Total solution • Agency-specific clauses may be added at Order level • Various contract types

• GWAC training and customer support services www.gsa.gov/gwacs

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How FAS Can Help

GWACS Available• Alliant Small Business• COMMITS NexGen• 8(a) STARS• VETS GWAC• ANSWER• Millennia• Millennia Lite

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Examples• Client

• U.S. Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (PEO STRI)

• Scope• Provide Life Cycle Support for all US Army Virtual Training devices Worldwide (VT

LCCS) over 8,000 virtual training devices in over 500 locations worldwide. These systems are of various configurations, complexities and age. Each class of system requires a unique and tailored support to meet the Army training requirements.

• Task Order Value/Task Type: • $752M/Performance Based Fixed Price/T&M

• Result• Using GSA’s ANSWER GWAC, the Army acquired this complex IT solution, with

thorough competition (5 offers), in only 52 days. • Customer Feedback: What did you like best about using a GWAC?

• “The basic award was well thought out and established a good framework for the Task Order that we awarded off of it. All we had to do was to add the DoD specific clauses out of the DFARS. GSA also delegated to us the administrative functions that allowed us to manage our effort using our resident in-house experts.”

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How FAS Can Help

Schedule 70: Offers a broad range of state-of-the-art Information Technology Products and Services through approximately 5000 contracts.

• Contracts in place• Fair & reasonable pricing (most-favored customer discounts)• Reduced procurement lead-time (less paperwork & documentation)• Direct relationships with contractors• Customized solutions (contractor teaming)• No additional administrative fees • www.gsa.gov/schedule70

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Examples Continued

The Schedule 70 and GWAC teams trained HHS contracting officers on the proper use of GSA Information Technology Acquisition Vehicles.

• HHS can now use that training to utilize GSA vehicles to upgrade technology in their Indian health service hospitals and health clinics. (Identified Stimulus Set Aside- $500M)

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How FAS/Connections Can Help

Connections Contract Overview• National Telecommunications Infrastructure

focused on buildings and campuses• Multiple Award ID/IQ• Full and Open Competition• Delivery / Task Order Model• Fair Opportunity• 3 Categories (Equipment, Services, and Solutions)• www.gsa.gov/connections

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Government Technology Improvements• Update SSA computer center• Upgrade State Department IT Platforms• Improve IT at Farm Service Agency• Improve security at Dept of Agriculture HQ

Federal Public Building Infrastructure Improvements• Veterans Health and National Cemetery Admin.

Homeland Security• Airport Screening Equipment and Port Security

Connections Contract could help with the following from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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How FAS/Connections Can Help

Connections Contract Details• Fast and easy to use• High degree of flexibility and customer choice• No project too big or too small• 14 prime contractors and their 500+ subs• Dovetails well with GSA transport contracts

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Connections Example

General Technology Improvements• Design, install, operate, manage, and/or maintain

telecommunications in buildings and campuses• Inside and outside wire and cable• Network management centers• Call Centers• Servers • Web Architecture

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Connections Example

Federal Public Building Infrastructure Improvements

• Network equipment, support and solutions • Wired or wireless• Infrastructure upgrades• Smart Buildings – Create integrated solutions with

PBS• Dovetails well with GSA transport contracts

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Connections Example

Homeland Security• Data servers and routers• Cameras• Building and campus wiring

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Customers Win with CONNECTIONS

Federal Trade Commission• Awarded a 5 year CONNECTIONS

contract to Apptis, Inc. • CONNECTIONS Category 2 award• Manage a centralized service call center,

supporting several locations• Provide on-site end user support to several

locations

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Customers Win with CONNECTIONS

General Services Administration• Maintenance & support of 26 PBX switches

throughout Region 9 (California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Pacific territories)

• Approximately 62% cost savings over 5 years

• Task was issued, awarded and implemented in approx. 3 months

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How FAS Can Help SmartBUY, the enterprise software program, has 31

agreements in place that save money, and improve security, configuration management and standardization. SmartBUY:

• Achieved tiered, discount pricing for commodity products

• Partnered with interagency Lines of Business (LoB) to establish BPAs that meet agencies’ technical requirements

• Aligns technical architecture with OMB policies• Saved customers over $165M in FY 2008• www.gsa.gov/smartbuy 16


How FAS Can Help Situational Awareness and Incident Response Tools

• SmartBUY BPAs have just been awarded for FDCC Baseline Configuration Management and Vulnerability Scanning/ Remediation tools to support OMB’s policy memoranda M-07-18, M-08-05, and M-08-22.

• Core requirements: software must have passed NIST’s validation testing for Secure Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) and for FIPS 140-2 Encryption. SmartBUY’s push for SCAP validation ensured that 17 more products were SCAP validated in less than one year.

Geospatial Initiative• In January 2008, the Geospatial LoB approached SmartBUY to

partner on multiple award BPAs for Geospatial solutions• Geospatial LoB includes working group members from GSA, DHS,

DOI, DOD, DOJ, NOAA and others• The SmartBUY / Geospatial LoB Solicitation is currently being

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Examples In June 2007, eleven BPAs were established offering

data encryption solutions for sensitive data on laptops, USB and external drives

As of December 2008, agencies purchased 1.7 million licenses, spent $27 million and saved the taxpayer $95 million through the use of the SmartBUY data encryption BPAs

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Schedule Points of Contact

GWACS: Jim Ghiloni: 703-306-7568, [email protected]

Schedule 70: Mike O’Neill: 703-605-2667, michael.o’[email protected]

Connections MAC: Debbie Clark: 703-306-6546, [email protected]

SmartBuy: John Schwarz: 703-306-7687, [email protected]

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Helpful Web Addresses GSA Homepage - www.gsa.gov

Information about the MAS Program - www.gsa.gov/schedules

GSA Advantage!® - www.gsaadvantage.gov

GSA eLibrary - www.gsa.gov/elibrary

e-Buy - www.gsa.gov/ebuy

Schedules Ordering Guide - www.gsa.gov/CMLSSearch for “Desk Reference Guide”

Customer Service Director Contact Info - ww.gsa.gov/csd

Additional Information on Services Schedules Ordering - http://schedulesolutions.net/

Helpful Search Tool - http://sites.google.com/site/advantageplusbeta/

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