Attendance Crystal Davis, OAM

> Yancey Stern, OAM

John Shackelford, CACi

Nancy Barrere, OAM

Kimberly Atsalinos, NIST

Jacqueline Wilson, Census

Sharon Driggins, Census

Judy Carrier, Census

Chuck Hughes, NOAA

Pat Grimes, NIST

Cheri Smith, NIST

Dick Bennett, NOAA

Ed Rockenstein, NOAA

Marjie Dones, NOAA

Lynne Phipps, NOAA

John Abbott, NOAA

Opening Remarks

-   Next meeting, May 1 @ NOAA

Open Actions

-   **Systems Administration (SA) Meeting** -- (C. Davis) Meeting was
    held 3/13, NOAA/Census/NIST participated. NOAA SA's expressed
    concerns of not getting adequate training to administer CSTARS,
    proposed having a SA Workshop in conjuction w/IT Acquisition Conf.,
    expressed user group meetings/minutes not helpful, requested OAM to
    pay for SA travel to IT Conf., CACi help desk not available to west
    coast time zones. At NOAA's request no further action required, they
    will work internally to resolve problems. Census/NIST reported no SA
    issues.

-   **Clause Management Class --** (C. Davis) CACi will distribute
    clause management user guides to participants of the Mar 18th class
    via CD-Rom. Overall feedback was positive; some thought the
    instructor was not focused on the topic.

-   **O/S+ Clause Management Training** -- TBD

-   **Clause Management Training WASC, MASC, EASC** -- (C. Davis)
    Training has been cancelled, per NOAA's request. NOAA will have
    train-the-trainer sessions to the field centers.

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-   **CSTARS Contract** -- (C. Davis) OAM has 3 Purchase
    Orders/Contracts w/CACi (Data Warehouse, Interface Support, Clause
    Management Training).

> [Action:]{.underline} (C. Davis) If Bureau's require CACi services
> should they be approved by
>
> CSTARS Program Office prior to soliciting? CSTARS user guides need to
> be updated.

-   **BPN/CCR** -- (N. Barrere) Proposed rule distributed today, please
    comment on proposed rule, 60 day comment period. Best case final
    rule is July. (Y. Stern) Data needed, Teresa Sorenti, BPN point of
    contact. Data warehouse shows every awarded contract
    department-wide. (C. Davis) There will be a meeting w/CASD, CFS with
    Dept. of Education to discuss the their task with CACi on linking to
    BPN/CCR.

> [Action:]{.underline} Is the Department taking lead to awarded
> vendors? Distribute draft proposed rule. CAPPS requesting HCO comments
> on rule. Add Judy Carrier, and Gail Wiley to User Group distribution
> list.

-   **CFS/CSTARS Interface** -- (C. Davis) NIST will be the first
    roll-out with Obligations/Vendors being a subset of Phase 1. TIBCO
    is being installed at CAMS.

-   **Data Warehouse** -- (Y. Stern) Demo went well, bureau's need cost
    estimates. Wednesday 4-6am do not be on system- doing refresher FTP
    site for data, secure FTP.

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-   **NOAA DPA** -- (J. Abbott) Final stages of DPA, wrap up at the end
    of the month.

-   **Disaster Recovery Status** -- (J. Abbott) NOAA logged in, SA
    tested able to make connection, see data and work in system. (P.
    Harper) O/S did not test. (J. Wilson) Census experienced and
    reported problems with the process, and communications with OCS. (Y.
    Stern) CSTARS Program Office putting together test scripts.
    March/September are Disaster Recovery dates

> Action: (J. Wilson) Set up meeting to discuss Census Disaster Recovery
> concerns, lessons learned. (OCS) What defines successful recovery
> test? (C. Hughes) Uniform protocol. (OCS) Working to get the September
> disaster recovery date changed.

-   **Formatting Issue** -- (C. Davis) The latest AR Update included
    removing the underline after the fill-in, and aligning the left
    margin in the local clause matrices. OCS will update the database
    this weekend. May/June AR Update to include putting FAR commercial
    items (212 clauses) in a checklist format. Text format, loose
    attributes no date scheduled, but will be fixed in ComprizonSuite.

-   **Census, Jeffersonville** **Printing Issue** -- (Harper) has been
    identified as a corrupt print driver.

> Action: (Jeffersonville) Gail, and Judy call Pam Harper.

-   **ComprizonSuite Demo 3/26** -- (Shackleford) Demonstration was
    cradle to grave. DOC not ready for web version, would lose a lot of
    functionalilty. CACi is building functionality every two months

Bureau Comments

-   **O/S+** - Pass

-   **NIST**- Request CSTARS Program Office organization chart. What are
    the roles of team members? Is CSTARS Program Office going to fund
    user manual updates CSTARS users are using is 5.3, the latest
    released version is 5.6B01? New requirements FPDS-NG, what are they?
    Action: Yancey to talk to C. Makris

-   **Census**- Pass

-   **NOAA** -- Pass

-   **OSDBU** -- Unable to attend

-   **OCS** -- Pass

-   **CACi** -- Pass