National Geospatial Advisory Committee

1. National Geospatial Advisory Committee Discussion of Partnerships August 27, 2009 Prepared by Gene Schiller & Jerry Johnston National Geospatial Advisory Committee

2. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Subcommittee Members: • Jerry Johnston (co-chair), Gene Schiller (co-chair), Bull Bennett, Michael Byrne, Dick Clark, Don Dittmar, Randy Johnson, Barney Krucoff, Timothy Loewenstein, Charles Mondello, John Palatiello • Purpose: • Develop recommendations to facilitate productive Federal / State / Local / Tribal / Academic / Private partnerships to facilitate the efficient and effective advancement of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).

3. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Activities to date: • NGAC agreed on following actions at May meeting: • ACTION: NGAC members provide feedback to Partnership Subcommittee’s Call for References by February 27, 2009 • AMENDED: Continue Call for References in ESRI Summer 2009 GIS Community News (see Attachment A) • ACTION: Subcommittee co-chairs summarized preliminary results of Call for References to report back to NGAC • Subcommittee co-chairs have updated table of all submittals in myUSGS wiki. • https://my.usgs.gov/NGACWiki/wiki/NGAC%20Partnerships%20Subcommittee%20Call%20for%20References

4. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Activities to date: (continued) • Subcommittee members to meet at August NGAC meeting • Review preliminary results and open issues • Discuss options for permanent hosting and sharing of the resource – John Mahoney • Federal • Non-Profit Partner: National Committee for Public-Private Partnerships (www.ncppp.org) – Washington, D.C.

5. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Planned Activities/Next Steps • Extracted key information from submittals • Preliminary Lessons Learned • Leveraged financing element • Intergovernmental collaborations – everyone in partnership shares information • Private sector provides services through contracts (unclear if private sector provided creative financing options) • Our community is good at collaborating to achieve results, however little evidence that we have yet taken advantage of creative financing to meet shared needs (See Attachment B: “GIS Goes Vertical, With Integration Across State, Local, Federal Lines”)

6. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Planned Activities/Next Steps • Extracted key information from submittals (continued) • What Works – Preliminary (see Attachment C: “NASCIO Keys to Collaboration: Building Effective Public-Private Partnerships”) (see Attachment D: “A Survey of PPP Legislation Across the United States”) • Establishment of favorable legislative, regulatory, and executive policy and procedure (OMB Circular) framework for creative partnership investments • Implementation of an integrated contractual framework to allocate risks among the partners, public and private in an equitable manner • Active engagement with political, staff and community stakeholders (need champions)

7. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Planned Activities/Next Steps • Extracted key information from submittals (continued) • Can we replicate it: Need to analyze legal framework • Federal Government (authorized by current law and regulation) • Law: “Brooks Act” Qualification Based Standards (QBS) Process – 40 U.S.C. 1101 et. seq. • Regulation: Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Parts 16 & 36 – FAR Part 16.5 for ID/IQ, FAR Part 36.6 for QBS • GSA, Freedom of Information Act, Obama Transparency Initiative, other? • Federal, state, regional, tribal and local government, private or non-profit sectors – need to analyze current legal landscape enabling or preventing partnerships between and among all willing participants

8. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Planned Activities/Next Steps • Extracted key information from submittals (continued) • How do we go about replicating it? • Need additional subcommittee research • Can we prototype it? • Remains to be determined • Opportunities for pilot funding • Measurement of success and revisions? • Remains to be determined

9. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Planned Activities/Next Steps (continued) • Prepare findings for December • Discuss legal framework enabling or limiting partnerships between and among federal agencies, state, regional, tribal and local governments, and the private and non-profit sectors with the objective for NGAC to: • Identify potential recommendations for federal statutory, regulatory and executive policy and procedure changes to facilitate partnership options including non-traditional financing within the Federal Government • Identify model or recommended federal, state, tribal and local (ordinances) statutory, regulatory and executive policy and procedure changes to facilitate partnership options including non-traditional funding and service delivery • Identify prototype opportunities for pilot funding

10. Partnership Subcommittee Progress Report • Planned Activities/Next Steps (continued) • Issues for Discussion at August 27 NGAC Meeting • Group Exercise: Barney Krucoff • Hypothetical proposal: “A Public-Private Utility is the Most Efficient Way for the United States to Build and Maintain a National Parcel Map” (see Attachment E) • Other