# Presentation: 340021

## No Contracting Officer is an Island		

- 2006 NIH Acquisition Symposium
- Diane J. Frasier
- Head of the Contracting Activity,
- Director, Office of Acquisition Management and Policy

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- Why
- What
- Who
- How

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- _WHY_:
- Not contracting for contracting’s sake
- Contracting for the NIH mission

**Notes:**
Noble mission
Press clippings
Advancing biomedical/behavioral research

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- _What:_
- Mechanisms
- Simplified Acquisition
- Station Support/Non R&D contracts
- R&D contracts

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- _Who:_
- Program
- Contractors
- Federal Community
- Contracting Officers

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- Program
- Extramural
- Intramural
- Administrative

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- Contractors
- Providing their expertise to fulfill the NIH’s requirements

## TOP TEN NIH CONTRACTORS 1996-2006(sorted by Number of Times on Top Ten List)

- SAIC FREDERICK INC, MD				11
- WESTAT, MD						11
- BROWN & ROOT SERVICES CORP., TX		8
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, MD 			8
- BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE, OH		7
- FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH, WA	4
- RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE PARK, NC		4
- ADVANCED BIOSCIENCE LABS, MD			3
- PATHLOGY ASSOCIATES INT’L, MD			3
- UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, CA		3
- UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA, NC			3

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

**Notes:**
State role of the various offices

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- Contracting Officer

## NIH TOTAL CONTRACT OBLIGATIONSFY 1996 – 2006(In Millions of Dollars)

- Includes Research and Development and non Research and Development Contracts only.

## NIH TOTAL ACQUISITION OBLIGATIONSFY 1998 – 2006(In Millions of Dollars)

- Includes contracts, simplified acquisitions, purchases, DELPRO, miscellaneous, leases.  2006 data preliminary; 1996, 1997 not available

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

**NIH 1996 TOTAL 1102 IC STAFF (256)**** ****(% of Total Staff)**

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

**NIH 2006 TOTAL 1102 C0AC STAFF (306)**** (% of Total Staff)**

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

**NIH TOTAL CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS****1996 vs 2006**

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

**NIH TOTAL 1102 STAFF**** ****1996 vs 2006**

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

**AVERAGE OBLIGATIONS BY 1102****1996 vs 2006****(In Millions of Dollars)**

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- Staffing crisis
- Senior Leadership
- Mid-level
- New acquisition professionals

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- 50 new staff

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- Meeting the Challenges
- Developing the acquisition workforce of the future
- Knowing all the tools in the COs toolkit
- Meeting the needs of Program

## No Contracting Officer is an Island

- Excerpt Quote from
- Steven Kelman, Ph.D.
- Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, Harvard University,
- JFK School of Government and
- Former Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, 1993 –1997
- Presented during the NITAAC Webinar
- Thursday, October 12, 2006
- Entitled “The Future of GWAC’s – Choices, Option, and Benefits”

- “Every person in the Government owes NIH an enormous debt of gratitude for their pioneer work in Government Contracting.”