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USAInfo Contractor Review NASA Technical Standards Program. NTSWG Meeting Glen Research Center Cleveland, OH - October 5-6, 2004 Paul W. Mercer, PE. Five-Year Contract Review. Fixed-price GSA contract with Lyme Computing USAInfo principal contractor May 2001 to May 2006
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USAInfo Contractor Review NASA Technical Standards Program NTSWG Meeting Glen Research Center Cleveland, OH - October 5-6, 2004 Paul W. Mercer, PE
Five-Year Contract Review • Fixed-price • GSA contract with Lyme Computing • USAInfo principal contractor • May 2001 to May 2006 • Fourteen NASA “Centers” (locations) • Document content • 108 SDO initially • 110 SDO currently • PDF & Hardcopy
Five-Year Contract Review (cont.) • Other Service • PartMiner CAPS (electronic components DB) • Metals & Materials • Parts & Supplier Data (FLIS) • Integrated Projects • SUNS • Lessons Learned • Cost • Five year contract: $6.5M • Average per year: $1.3M
Program Status • Three years & Five months… • Usage & Other Metrics • Defer to NTSPO presented material
Exception Documents… • Exception Documents • Those requested outside contract 110 • Funding arrangements • 41 NTSPO denied • Cost… • Year two… $250 (3 months) • Year three… $4,110 • Year four… $3,450 (to date) • Total to date… $7,810
Exception Documents…(cont.) • Top four… 68% of use/cost • ASM (11) • American Society for Metals • Telcordia (3) • Telecommunications (SAIC) • ACGIA (9) • American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists • AIHA (8) • American Industrial Hygienists Association
Program Challenges • Forecasting five-year usage • SDO cost increases • Data quality… Update frequency & accuracy • Hardcopy vs. PDF • Exception Documents
Program Challenges (cont.) • SDO Digital Rights Management (DRM) • Document locking… • Print control… • Water marking… • SDO licensing restrictions • SAE… AWS… UL… NFC… Others • Pricing • Per document • Subscription
Program Challenges (cont.) • Trending high usage • On-site contractor usage • Space Alliance • SDO licensing coverage • Floating domain • Action tracking (ATS) • IHS acquisition of USAInfo…
IHS Acquisition Implications • Remaining contract 19 months… status quo • Benefits • Expanded resources • USAInfo – 32 people • IHS – 2050 people world-wide • PDF content: AWS, EIA, NFC, UL, NEMA, CGA, Other • Could be the best of both worlds… • If we (together) can keep costs in check • World-Class, innovative, cost/value solutions • Listen – and respond – to end users • Other TBD in the next few months
IHS SDO Benefits… • SDO PDF documents… • AWS Yes • CGA Yes • EIA Yes • NEMA Yes • NFC (fire) Yes • UL Yes • API Yes • Hardcopy ?… ASM, AIHA, ACGIH, Telcordia
IHS Acquisition (cont.) • Increased interest in the NASA Technical Standards Model • IHS • DOD • Commercial • International
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