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We Don’t Need the Same Contracting Career Field Leadership that is Commonly Used in Other Career Fields. Session # 1010 Nelson L. Mellitz , CPCM, Fellow , NE Area Chief Procurement Officer, Internal Revenue Service April 16, 2008. The Year 2025. Retirement Surge GSA
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We Don’t Need the Same Contracting Career Field Leadership that is Commonly Used in Other Career Fields Session #1010 Nelson L. Mellitz, CPCM, Fellow, NE Area Chief Procurement Officer, Internal Revenue Service April 16, 2008
The Year 2025 • Retirement Surge • GSA • E-Procurement of the Future • Strategic Sourcing – Industry /Government Relations • Ethics and Procurement Integrity
The Year 2025 (continued) Acquisition University – one source Automated Contracting System – one system almost ready Logistics – Enterprise AF Awards Another Tanker Contract Procurement Reform – Al Gore
Back to the Present The Office Environment Manager to employees ratio - training - career progression - opportunities Why stay in contracting
Educating the Next/ Current Generation Where/ When How - availability - similar education - recurrent training Responsibility
Strategic Sourcing of People Concept to Retirement - Supplies and Service - Professional contracting staff Excellence in Contracting Leadership
Automation Common Contracting System/ Integrated Acquisition Environment Which system Who owns the system Who updates the system Who repairs the system
Private and Public Working Together Automation Education Transferability of workforce Emergencies – on call Supply management
Lean and Constraints • Test • Time • Cost • Risk • Re-baseline
Predictions • Confirming success • Reducing risk • Improving workforce • Improving leadership • Re-baselining
Preventing the Unthinkable • Not responding to an attack • Not responding to a natural emergency • Ethics and Procurement Integrity violations • Be knowledgeable about the new contracting (energy, 4th battlefront, etc) • Re-baselining
Foundation for Being Smart in Contracting • Trained and experienced leadership • Educated and career oriented Professionals • Industry is not always right/neither is Government • Transform the Infrastructure • - manage and protect the people first and data second • Continuous communications with inter-changeable work between civilian and DoD Agencies • Public and Private Sectors (domestic and international – exchanging best practices
The Year 2025 • There is “one” Knowledge database accessible to all on a website - Federal Acquisition University (FAI/DAU) • There is “one” automated contracting system - FAU • Acquisition University has graduated class - 2025-A of the next generation, and - 2025-B of senior leaders
The Year 2025 (continued) • Congress has decided to stay out of the Ethics enforcement business. • Work is transferred electronically between agencies and private companies • Contracting professional are given work according to capacity • We now plan the workforce instead of the work planning the force.
The Year 2025 (continued) • The people that do the work don’t just attend classes for certifications but cross communicate best practices. • President Gore takes/create the new procurement reform by promoting better use of the Green Internet.
Contact Information • Nelson L. Mellitz, CPCM, Fellow • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 212-436-1842 Nelson.Mellitz@IRS.gov • Villanova University 856-278-3041 NMellitz@Comcast.net