CORRALLING CONTRACTS
FIGURE 2
HQ ASC Installation
Logistics Division
HQ ASC Contract
Management Office
ACC
supporting contracting offices
Enterprise-level business management.
Assists in require- ments validation (POM through SCA form approval)—due diligence on base levels of support.
Standardizes performance work statements and quality assurance surveillance plans across the enterprise.
Standardizes technical standards for the CORs to improve performance management.
Conducts program reviews (cost, schedule, perfor- mance).
Manages inventory of ASC service contracts and processes SCAs.
EAGLE Business Office.
Focuses on develop- ing pre-award
requirements packages and assists in source selection.
Portfolio manager supports DA-level services contract management and strategic sourcing, acting as advocate.
Facilitates develop- ment of acquisition strategy with requiring activity, ensuring that small business office and competition advocate have a voice.
Organizes command- wide contract
management reviews.
Part of the ASC services acquisition team throughout the acquisition process; actively participates in the planning, development and execution phases.
Provides technical advice on developing acquisition strategies.
Executes strategy— accepts requirements package and awards contracts.
Participates in ASC contract management reviews, cooperating on performance management.
expanded the use of industry days, small business symposiums and advance plan- ning briefings for industry. Finally, to tie all these efforts together, ASC established a business process whereby all service requirements with a total value exceeding $200,000 go to an acquisition strategy review board made up of members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) from ASC and the U.S. Army Contracting Com- mand (ACC). A multifunctional team from the requirements and contracting communities works to develop and pres- ent an acquisition strategy to the board for approval.
ASC’s most contract
recent ily monitoring initiatives and focus on
post-award activities, primar- costs
contractor KEY
COR: Contracting Officer’s Representative POM: Program Objective Memorandum SCA: Services Contract Approval
NEXT, ORGANIZE THE TEAM
In addition to ASC’s work to stand up these three teams, the Army established the position of portfolio manager for logistics management services in ASC headquarters as part of its horizontal governance structure. Those changes gave ASC the structure and manpower to initiate continuous improvement in services contracts management.
performance. To accomplish this, ASC has begun conducting a quarterly con- tract management review, or CMR. Te CMR is an open forum that allows the ASC commanding general to review the services contract inventory and discuss service contract performance with the headquarters staff, Army field support brigade (AFSB) commanders and sup- porting commanders and managers from ACC. As part of this review, the activity responsible for each services requirement assesses each contract using cost, sched- ule and performance metrics.
Subsequently, each AFSB then selects two to three contracts to undergo a “deep dive” review, which the brigades brief to the ASC commanding general. Among other things, this review encompasses surveillance
activities
logistics services. ASC sought the sup- port of DAU, using the DAU Services Acquisition Workshop, where instructors facilitate the development of PWSs and QASPs, and use of the DAU Acquisi- tion Requirements Roadmap Tool Suite,
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a “how-to” guide to effectively managing service requirements—a sort of “Services Acquisition for Dummies”—to develop and refine these products. To further increase competition and productivity and improve market research, ASC also
Army AL&T Magazine October-December 2016 by contracting
officer’s representatives and ratings of contractor performance. Te review identifies positive and negative trends to be addressed if necessary, making the command more responsive to situations in which a contract maybe veering off course. Finally, to spread best practices across the command and to identify
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