exercised at the time of award. Te contract also includes up to a three-year award term based on the contractor’s performance.
Te taxpayer is expected to save more than $900 million over a 10-year period of performance; the Army and other ser- vices will save as much as $72 million in FY13 alone. Tese calculations are based on a comparison of the new prices result- ing from competition with historical prices for the projected “buys” during the life of the contract. Tey do not include the sub- stantial value the government will receive as a result of the contractor’s commercial use of the facility. Te projected savings, coupled with the benefits of commercial use, far outweigh the Army’s investment in modernizing LCAAP.
CONCLUSION Tis real-world application of the BBP tenet “Promote Effective Competition” demonstrates how a holistic, multidi- mensional approach can ensure a truly competitive environment and deliver significant results for the government. Establishing a level playing field for the LCAAP contract required time, hard work and significant upfront investment, but in saving more than $900 million, the Army more than recouped its investment for the government and, more important, the American taxpayer.
For more information, contact Ms. Kristin Comer at
kristin.l.comer.civ@
mail.mil or 309-782-3491.
MS. KRISTIN COMER is a contracting officer, Direct Fire Munitions Branch, for U.S. Army Contracting Command – Rock Island, IL. She holds a B.A. in inter- national
marketing and Spanish from
Simpson College and an M.B.A. from St. Ambrose University. Comer is Level III cer- tified in contracting and Level I certified in
BIRD’S EYE VIEW
LCAAP, near Kansas City, MO, was built in 1942 and received little modernization until 2005. (Courtesy of Steven Sanders, Sanders Photography)
program management. She is a member of the U.S. Army Acquisition Corps (AAC).
MR. JOSEPH DEFINO is the cost analysis team lead, Business Management Divi- sion, PM MAS, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an M.S.
in management of technology
from the Polytechnic University. DeFino is Level III certified in program management and in systems planning, research, develop- ment and engineering (SPRDE) – systems engineering; Level II certified in SPRDE
– program systems engineering; and Level I certified in information technology. He is an AAC member.
MS. KIMBERLY MCCLEEREY is an acquisition team lead, Business Management Division, PM MAS, Picatinny Arsenal. She holds a B.A.
in
business from Trenton State College and an M.B.A.
McCleerey is Level III certified
from Seton Hall University. in
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contracting and business, and Level II certified in program management. She is an AAC member.
MR. ROBERT KOWALSKI is the business manager for PM MAS, Picatinny Arsenal. He holds a B.S.
in chemical engineering
from Lehigh University and an M.S. in systems management from the Florida Institute of Technology. Kowalski is Level III certified in program management; systems engineering; and production, quality and manufacturing. He is an AAC member.
MR. WILLIAM SANVILLE is the deputy PM MAS, Picatinny Arsenal. He holds a B.S. degree in engineering from the Univer- sity of Massachusetts – Lowell and earned an M.S. in technology management from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, where he was named a Moore Fel- low. Sanville is Level III certified in SPRDE – systems engineering and an AAC member.
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