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National Contract Management Association Aerospace & Defense Contract Management Conference

National Contract Management Association Aerospace & Defense Contract Management Conference. Debra Johnson Director, Office of Procurement Johnson Space Center. Content. Challenges with Program Transition Organizational Conflict of Interest Implementing Earned Value on Fixed Price Contracts

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National Contract Management Association Aerospace & Defense Contract Management Conference

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  1. National Contract Management AssociationAerospace & Defense Contract Management Conference Debra Johnson Director, Office of Procurement Johnson Space Center

  2. Content • Challenges with Program Transition • Organizational Conflict of Interest • Implementing Earned Value on Fixed Price Contracts • Agency Pricing Capability

  3. Challenges with Acquisition Workforce • Aging workforce - NASA & Contractors face similar concerns - Ability/budget to hire issues • Critical Skill Retention - Complete current mission while planning and executing new mission to the moon and Mars

  4. Organizational Conflict of Interests • Small pool of aerospace contractors combined with large number of Cx, Shuttle, and ISS contracts results in much greater potential for OCI among the procurements. • It is feared that concerns about being awarded one contract only to be prevented from future competitions may have a chilling effect on the competitive marketplace and inappropriately restrain competition.

  5. Implementing Earned Value on Fixed Price Contracts • NASA has traditionally not used EVM for FFP contracts - Used primarily for development & production contracts - Used to control cost and schedule risk • Potential application to FFP contracts, if: - Multiple cost & schedule variables - Risk is worth the additional cost of managing to an EVM system • NASA uses EVM on Program level contracts • Not all CO’s/Program Managers have extensive EVM experience

  6. Agency Pricing Capability • Limited set of Pricing Professionals • Hiring Challenges • Skill Development • Multiple Major Competition Activities • Contracting out analysis assistance is possible • Funding challenges

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