**Industry Updates: Paul **/ Skip/ **Bruce Proposed Outline of Items**

**I. Industry Update**

**. Paul - Debrief on (4/18) Industry Meeting with Dave**

**Drabkin & Emily Murphy**

** . Gov Works April 18 GSA Memo instructing**

** Contracting Officers not to require contractors to**

** certify work is in scope.**

**. ODC\'s - GSA will issue an Acquisition Letter**

**. IFF- GSA is contemplating lowering the fee.**

**. FPDS-NG (Federal Procurement Data System- Next**

**Gen)**

**. Acquisition Workforce Training**

**. ttSPD (Homeland Security Presidential Directive)**

**. Paul - California \$10 fee - Results of 4/26 ITAA**

** Conference Call ­**

i\. GSA and Navy (DoD lead for the Department) have

agreed that this is a Tax not a FEE

ii\. Deliver monitor in CA, \$10 recycling fee

iii\. Penalty can range from \$2500 to \$ 7500

iv\. Battle between CA and GSA- GSA said it will sue

v\. Working with Policy- Debbie to clarify and send out

official GSA policy

vi\. CA Board of Equalization has not received a formal

position from GSA. Per ITAA

vii\. ITAA working/talking with all parties in CA & GSA

viii\. ITAA to send EMERGENCY letter by COB 4/27 to CA that states \"No
penalty be applied to retailers\" issued resolved and retailers able to
collect TAX from the buyers.

ix\. ITAA reported that Dianna Henry of GSA Has been

assigned this issue

**. Paul- GSA will add voice services to the widely used Schedule 70
contract for information technology, agency spokeswoman Mary Alice
Johnson confirmed. That contract includes a broad range of IT products
and service offered by many companies and lets agencies buy goods and
services quickly. GSA officials would have to add the voice services
through a formal modification process.**

. **Paul - DoD Watch**

** . Oct. 29- Air Force Memo ( Provided Copy)**

** i. Guidance on procurement of non-DoD contracts**

** . Jan 27- Air Force Memo**

** i. Information Technology Purchasing- Network**

** Centric Solutions (NETCENTS) Action**

** Memorandum**

** 1. Manadatory Use**

** 2. Primary source for acquiring**

** communications hardware and software.**

** 3. System engineering, integration, and**

** installation**

** . Mar 24 - Office of the Under Secretary Of Defense**

** i. Proper Use of Interagency Agreements for Non­**

** Department of defense Contracts**

** 1. Coordinate with GSA to return unobligated**

** balances by 6/1/05**

** 2. DoD Services must Certify actions**

** completed by 6/30/05**

** 3. Other services issuing follow-on**

** instructions**

**. Skip - DoD Iraq (Update)**

** . Old Bullet Items Below **\*\*\* **Add **New\*\*\*\* **Old Items**

** below**

i\. They will produce a guide about how to Get it Right

and it will be great.

ii\. DOD training effort is being put in place

iii\. Get it Right is not going to apply only to GSA

vehicles. Will apply toall non-DoD and DOD

contracts

**. Skip - One GSA white paper **\*\*\* **Add New **\*\*\*\* **Old
Items**

** Below**

x\. Industry/government perspective

xi\. Concerns getting a common answer from GSA

xii\. Suggested that there should be a place you can call

for an answer by high level procurement people

xiii\. How do you communicate in its entirety the

uniqueness of GSA- 30 second elevator speech

1\. Potential of undoing harm

**. Skip - Coalition created a draft memo for DoD to realign**

** guidance for using schedules**

xiv\. Intended for Dee Lee to send out

xv\. Realigns guidance from Dee Lee to say there is

nothing wrong with using Schedules or GWACs

. Bruce - FSS- FTS Merger (Back-up You requested)

Several companies and organizations (PSC and CGP included) read and
provided statements to Donna Bennett and Barbara Shelton (Commissioners
of the FSS and FTS). They then asked several questions of each
presenter. The key recommendations from industry were:

0 Don\'t reorganize the old way of doing business. First look at the
current marketplace and update GSA

business processes to better serve the client.

0 Involve industry and clients in the process

0 Merge the IT and General Funds - eliminates

controversy on appropriate scope for funding ( an IG audit issue)

0 Make regional acquisition people (CO and ITM) responsible to central
office for implementing consistent policy and practices. (Seeks to
eliminate disharmony in process and procedures like each region
differently interpreting rules on ODCs, payment clause for subs on T&M
contracts, etc.)

0 Consolidate GSA Schedule Service offerings so projects that involve
both IT and systems engineering can be bid by the same vendor using both
IT and PES schedule skill categories.

0 Don\'t lower the IFF from .75% - instead use the current surplus to
fund training for GSA, client and contractor people, and for
improvements in the

acquisition workforce

0 March 17- Tom Davis Meeting

0 Proposed Time LIne

. First cut of plan 5/31

. Final Plan 7/31

. Changes take effect lOll

.

. Bruce- Post Award & Pre Award Audits.

. Bruce - Proposed GSAR rule for Consequential Damages.

. Bruce - DCAA\'s (4/9) Audit Guidance on FSS Payments under T&M
Contracts. Alliant DRAFT RFP contains a clause restricting mark-up on
Subcontracts. GSA setting up a meeting with DCAA

. Bruce- Summarize recent GAO Audit Report \"GSA Best

Value\"

0 \"Wasn\'t able to ascertain whether or not they got the

lowest price

. Paul - Other Topics

. DoD Radio Frequency Identification - (Proposed rule ­

(70 Federal Register 20726, April 21) (DFARS Case

2004-D01)­

1\. Require contractors to affix passive RFID

Tags at case and pallet load level.

2\. Comments due June 20

. DoD Unique Item Identification and Valuation (UID) ­

(Final Rule) (70 Federal Register 20831, April 22)

(DFARS Case 2004-D001)

1\. Policy for Unique Identification and

valuation of items delivered to DoD

2\. Rule effective 4/2

FOR GSA

. Update From Roger Waldron - Section 1423 Panel - Panel has one year to
review acquisition laws, regs and policies with respect to commercial
practices, performance-based contracts, the acquisition workforce and
small business

issues.

Questions for GSA

. Status of \"Messaging\", what follows \"Get It Right\" . Status update
on Training