Working Agenda 9.12.2014 .

Fall Conference 2014

Theme

35 years of Commonsense in Government Procurement: Looking Back and Moving Forward

All speakers Invited, unless noted

Time / Topic / Speaker
8:00 / Welcome/CGP initiatives / Roger Waldron
President, Coalition
8:15 to 8:45 / Keynote / Tom Davis (Confirmed)
Looking back and Moving Forward – Post Elections
8:45 to 9:30 / Managing the Federal Government for Future Excellence / Beth Cobert, OMB Deputy Director for Management
9:30 to 10 / GSA Schedules – Retooling for the future / Jeff Koses GSA (Confirmed)
Senior Procurement Executive
10 to 10:30 / Break
10:30 to 11:15 / Cybersecurity – A game changer / John Streufert
Director, Federal Network Resilience
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Brad Medairy (Confirmed)
Senior Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
11:20 to 12:15 / Town hall
Innovative, streamlined, cost effective acquisition – Where are we, What needs to change, How do we get there?
Q&A format – establish categories for questions; ask for questions with registration and from the audience
IDIQ duplication costs and the efficacy of the interagency contracting alternative covered / Brig. Gen. Casey D. Blake
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting
Anne Rung, Senior Advisor, OFPP (Tentative)
Steve Schooner, Professor and Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law Program, George Washington University
(Confirmed)
Richard G. Frank, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS
12:30 to 1:45 / Lunch

Breakout sessions 2:00 to 3:00

1 / Electronic Platforms and Social Media
From EMALLto GSA Advantage! to the Common Acquisition Platform - an explanation of how current systems connect and where the government is headed with electronic platforms and the use of social media in the acquisition process. Find out what it all means for your business. / Kevin Youel Page, Assistant Commissioner Integrated Award Environment, GSA,FAS
Phillip Deboe
EMALL Program Manager
Defense Logistics Agency
Lisa Grant
Assistant Commissioner, Acquisition GSA, FAS
2 / Global Supply Update
  • Update on strategic sourcing initiatives
  • Transitioning from GSA warehouse to Direct Delivery
  • And more
/ Shaloy Castle Higgens, Director, Greater Southwest Acquisition Center
Janet Haynes Acting, Schedules Acquisition Director,Center for Facilities Maintenance and Hardware (CFMH)
(Confirmed)*

Peter Han, Director, National Administrative Services and Office Supplies Acquisition Center

(Confirmed)*
Brian Knapp, Director,GSA, Integrated Workplace Acquisition Center (IWAC)
(Confirmed)*
Bruce Spainhour
Director, Center for Innovation Acquisition Development
3 / Customer Users of Government-wide Vehicles
This session will examine how major customers use government-wide vehicles. Panelists will discuss the opportunities and challenges of various vehicles / Jose Arrieta, Procurement Ombudsman, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Diane Sahakian, Deputy Head of Contracting, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (DHS)
Chris Hamm, FEDSIM (GSA)
4 / OASIS and beyond – Changes in the Acquisition of Professional Services
  • Consolidated Schedules and the future of GSA Schedules
  • Pricing tools
  • Update on OASIS
  • Use of OASIS as a model for future acquisitions – what works and what doesn’t
/ Jim Ghiloni, Acting Director of Acquisition Operations
(Confirmed)*
Tiffany Hixon
Regional Commissioner, Federal Acquisition Service
Geri Watson, Director, Services Acquisition Center

* Confirmation subject to agency approval process

Breakout sessions 3:15 to 4:15

1 / DOD Acquisition Update
  • Impact of the DOD waiver for Schedules Pricing
  • Changes to Commercial Acquisition
  • Significant acquisitions of the military services

2 / Update on Government-wide IT Acquisitions
This session will highlight major acquisition programs supporting the acquisition of government wide IT programs. CIO-SP3, Alliant, NASA SEWP and more. Don’t miss this opportunity for information and best practices that helps enhance your performance in the IT market / Casey Kelly & Team, Integrated Technology Service, GSA(Confirmed)*
Joanne Woytek, Program Manager, NASA SEWP (Confirmed)
Robert Coen – Acting Director, NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC)
(Confirmed)*
Kay Ely Director, IT Schedules Acquisition Center(Confirmed )
3 / Strategic Sourcing What’s Ahead (Furniture, Managed Print Services and OPM Training and Management Assistance (TMA), IT FSSI) / Brian Knapp, Director,GSA, Integrated Workplace Acquisition Center (IWAC)(Confirmed)*
George Price, Deputy Director, Human Resource Solutions,Training and Management Assistance Program, OPM (Confirmed)
Darlene Coen, NASA SEWP(Confirmed)
Phyllis Bower
Strategic Acquisition Center (VA)
4 / Coming soon in the federal market
Business Analysis / Ray Bjorklund, Birchgrove Consulting
Confirmed
Cameron Leuthy
Bloomberg Government
Confirmed

* Confirmation subject to agency approval process

4:30 to 5:00 Wrap Up

Find out what you missed. Get a report out from the afternoon Breakout sessions.