Enclosure 

GAO-03-832R NSF Business Analysis Plan Contract 

July 10, 2003 

The Honorable Christopher S. Bond 

Chairman, Subcommittee on 

 VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies 

Committee on Appropriations 

United States Senate 

Subject: National Science Foundation: Status of the Business Analysis Plan 

Contract 

Dear Mr. Chairman: 

In June 2002, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $14.8 million 

contract for a business analysis plan to support three key management areas at the 

foundation: its business processes, human capital, and information technology. The 

contract is to be completed by September 30, 2005, and is to result in seven 

deliverables, including a project plan to guide the contractor’s work. 

You asked us to obtain information on (1) the status of contract funds budgeted to 

the key management areas and contract deliverables, and overall plans for the 

contract; (2) the extent to which the contract will address management issues 

previously reported by audit and oversight bodies; and (3) NSF’s management of the 

contract and plans for integrating any recommendations made by the contractor. We 

provided your staff with a formal briefing on our findings on May 14, 2003. A copy of 

our briefing is enclosed.1

 

In summary, we found the following: 

As of May 31, 2003, NSF had spent about $1.9 million on the contract, with business 

processes and human capital management accounting for about 75 percent of the 

expenditures and information technology accounting for the remainder. Expenditure 

data by individual contract deliverable were unavailable because NSF did not 

estimate and is not tracking the costs of deliverables due from the contractor. NSF’s 

current schedule for the contract reflects delays for early deliverables, including the 

first deliverable, the project plan. The contractor delivered a draft project plan to 

NSF on June 30, 2003, and NSF is working with the contractor to finalize it by July 15, 

2003, over a year later than originally planned. Agency officials attributed delays of 

 

1

We have updated our briefing slides to reflect current expenditure data and a revised estimated 

project plan completion date discussed in this report. 

United States General Accounting Office 

Washington, DC 20548 
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early deliverables primarily to funding limitations during fiscal year 2002 and the first 

half of fiscal year 2003. Despite the initial delays, NSF still expects the contract to be 

completed by its originally planned date. NSF plans to spend only the original base 

amount of the contract—$12.8 million—and does not have any current plans to use 

the additional $2 million it reserved for ad hoc analyses. 

The extent to which key management issues identified by audit and oversight bodies 

will be addressed under the contract is unknown. Over the past few years, audit and 

oversight bodies such as GAO, the Office of Management and Budget, and NSF’s 

Office of the Inspector General have reported on various management issues at NSF, 

including issues related to budget performance, financial management, human 

capital, information technology, and award and project management. NSF’s initial 

contract documents, such as its statement of work and request for proposals, 

contained provisions for the majority of these management issues to be included in 

the scope of the contract. The awarded contract requires the contractor to perform 

early survey work to determine the specific issues to address within the contract 

deliverables. Therefore, until the survey work and project plan are completed, the 

extent to which the key management issues will be addressed under the contract is 

unknown. 

Before and since the award of the contract, NSF contract management staff has kept 

senior-level officials apprised, through periodic briefings, of its plans for and progress 

on the contract. The NSF organizations that have been involved in monitoring or 

oversight activities of the business analysis plan contract include 

• a steering committee for the contract, chaired by the contracting officer’s 

technical representative and consisting of senior-level management and 

nonmanagement staff in all program areas covered by the contract; 

• senior management officials, including the Director and Deputy Director of NSF 

and the heads of most research directorates and staff offices; 

• the Business and Operations Advisory Committee, which advises both the 

Director of Budget, Finance and Award Management and the Director of 

Information and Resource Management; 

• the National Science Board’s Audit and Oversight Committee; and 

• NSF’s Office of the Inspector General. 

Some of these organizations also have provided advice and guidance on the contract. 

For example, the Business and Operations Advisory Committee encouraged the 

business analysis team to consider, among other things, how other government-wide 

efforts, such as enterprise architecture, might affect its work and recommendations. 

In addition, the committee encouraged the team to coordinate with other ongoing 

work at NSF that might have implications for the business analysis plan. Also, in the 

early stages of contract development, the Office of the Inspector General encouraged 

strong oversight of the contractor by NSF. 

To implement any recommendations resulting from the contract, NSF plans to work 

the recommendations through its normal chain of command. For some 
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recommendations requiring agencywide change, NSF’s Office of Integrative 

Activities, which is responsible for integrating many crosscutting issues across the 

agency, will develop an implementation strategy and devolve the actual 

implementation to the relevant division or office. For other crosscutting 

recommendations, NSF will decide on a case-by-case basis whether to assign 

development of an implementation strategy to an existing working group or create a 

new one. NSF plans to request additional appropriations, as necessary, to cover the 

cost of implementing any recommendations resulting from the contract. For 

example, NSF already has requested $1 million in its fiscal year 2004 budget request 

to implement human capital recommendations anticipated from the contractor. 

We provided a draft of this report to the Director of NSF for comment. In response, 

we received oral comments from the NSF contracting officer’s technical 

representative responsible for managing the contract and from other senior 

management officials including the Chief Human Capital Officer and Chief Financial 

Officer. The NSF officials generally agreed with the information presented in our 

report and provided some clarifying comments that we incorporated as appropriate. 

Our methodology is discussed in the enclosed slides. We performed our work from 

January 2003 through June 2003 in accordance with generally accepted government 

auditing standards. 

- - - - - - 

We are sending copies of this report to the Director of NSF. In addition, this report 

will be available at no charge on the GAO Web site at http://www.gao.gov. 

If you have any questions about this report or need additional information, please 

contact me at (202) 512-3841. Key contributors to this report were David P. Bixler, 

Michael E. Gilbert, and Lynn M. Wasielewski. 

Sincerely yours, 

Robin M. Nazzaro 

Director, Natural Resources 

 and Environment 

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National Science Foundation: 

Status of the Business Analysis 

Plan

Briefing

Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and 

Independent Agencies

Committee on Appropriations

U.S. Senate

May 14, 2003
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Briefing Overview

• Background

• Objectives

• Scope and Methodology

• Results in Brief

• Contract Funding

• Management Issues

• Contract Oversight and Management 

• Related Studies at NSF
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Background

• NSF’s mission includes

• promoting the progress of science;

• advancing the nation’s health, prosperity, and welfare; and 

• securing national defense.

• NSF’s FY 2002 Administration and Management (A&M) Strategic 

Plan focuses on improvements in three areas to support NSF’s 

mission:

• Business processes, 

• Human capital, and

• Technology and tools.
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Background

(continued)

• A&M plan also focuses on improvement in five mission-critical 

business processes:

• Merit review

• Award management and oversight

• Resource allocation

• Performance assessment and accountability

• Knowledge management

• A&M plan announced initiation of a comprehensive, multi-year 

business analysis to support its human capital, mission-critical 

business processes, and information technology management
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Background

(continued)

• NSF awarded a 3-year, $14.8 million business analysis contract to BoozAllen-Hamilton (BAH) in June 2002

• Contract base amount is $12.8 million, with an additional $2 million 

reserved as discretionary funding

• Contract scheduled for completion end of FY 2005; will consist of 7 

individual products (deliverables):

• Project plan

• Business analysis assessment

• Document current environment

• Business analysis plan for core processes

• Human capital management plan

• IT and enterprise architecture plan

• Final report
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Objectives

To provide information on

• The status of contract funds by key management areas 

and contract deliverables, and NSF’s overall plans for the 

contract;

• The extent to which the contract addresses management 

issues cited by audit and oversight bodies; and

• NSF’s management of the contract and plans for 

integrating any recommended actions.
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Scope and Methodology

To determine

• The status of contract funding, we reviewed budget documentation and 

expenditure records, and interviewed NSF officials.

• The extent to which the contract addresses management challenges, we 

compared management issues cited in GAO, OIG, OMB, and NSF 

documents with issues addressed in the initial contract documentation, and 

interviewed NSF contract officials. 

• NSF’s management of the contract and plans for integrating contractor 

recommendations, we identified management oversight functions and the 

frequency of oversight activities; reviewed records of meetings, including 

minutes by oversight bodies; and interviewed NSF officials.
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Results in Brief

• Contract funding

• $1.9 million spent as of May 31, 2003, among three management areas1

• Costs of deliverables not estimated or tracked

• Early deliverables, including the project plan, have been delayed, but NSF still plans to complete the contract on schedule in FY 2005

• Management issues

• Key management issues identified by audit and oversight bodies are to be assessed by the contractor to determine the final scope of work for each 

issue 

• Extent and how issues will be addressed not fully known until project plan is completed

• Contract oversight and management 

• Oversight and management structure in place

• NSF plans to request separate appropriations to implement recommendations

1

Expenditure data have been updated to reflect the most recent available data; the original data reported in the briefing were

as of March 31, 2003.
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Contract Funding

Summary

• Expect to spend $12.8 million of $14.8 million awarded 

• $1.9 million spent as of May 31, 20031

• Expenditures came from the salaries and expense appropriation

• Costs of deliverables not estimated or tracked

• Early deliverables are late—project plan, expected to guide 

contractor activities, is due in July 2003,2 and will be over 1 year 

late 

1

Expenditure data have been updated to reflect the most recent available data; the original data reported in the briefing were as of March 31, 2003. 2

The estimated completion date for the project plan has been updated to reflect NSF’s most current estimate; the estimated completion date 

reported in the briefing was June 30, 2003.
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Contract Funding 

NSF’s Actual and Planned Expenditures, as of May 31, 2003a

$1.901

1.451

$ .450

Actual

expenditures

Total $14.775b $12.800

Current and 

planned

expenditures

Original

estimates

2005 3.800 4.900

2004 4.500 4.500

2003 6.000 2.950

2002 $ .475 $ .450

Expenditures (dollars in millions)

Fiscal year

a

Expenditure data have been updated to reflect the most recent available data; the original data reported in the briefing were

as of March 31, 2003.

b

Original amount planned was $14.8 million.
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Contract Funding 

Contract Expenditures by Major Category, as of May 31, 2003a

Business processes $753,138

Human capital 660,753

Information technology 487,590

Total $1,901,481 

• NSF expects human capital will become the largest category of expenditure 

over the life of the contract.

26%

35%

39%

a

Expenditure data have been updated to reflect the most recent available data; the original data reported in the briefing were

as of March 31, 2003.
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Contract Funding 

Source of Contract Funds

• FY 2002:

• The Advisory and Assistance Services object class within the 

Salaries and Expense Appropriation account1

• Administrative Cost Recoveries—fees received from other federal 

agencies for activities administered for those agencies, such as

making science awards

• According to NSF officials, these expenditures directly reduced 

the amount of discretionary spending that could have been spent 

on IT enhancements 

• According to NSF officials, however, these expenditures did not 

reduce the amount of annual appropriations originally planned for 

IT spending

1Initially, $1 million was obligated in fiscal year 2002, from the Research and Related Activities account but was subsequently de-obligated.
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Contract Funding 

Source of Contract Funds (continued)

• FY 2003: NSF plans to fund the contract from the Advisory and 

Assistance Services object class–not from Administrative Cost 

Recoveries.

• According to the Director of Information Systems, the business 

analysis project is a net benefit to IT because a substantial amount 

of the contract funds are being spent on enterprise architecture and 

IT planning. 
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Contract Funding

Status of Contract Deliverables

• NSF did not initially estimate, and does not track, the 

costs of individual deliverables.

• NSF is still developing dates for deliverables, but the 

current plan reflects some delays of early 

deliverables, including the project plan. 

• NSF does not expect early delays to delay contract 

completion.
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Contract Funding

Status of Contract Deliverables (continued)

• According to senior officials, delays occurred because

• FY 2002 - NSF was limited to spending $500,000 due to 

annual reprogramming limitations

• FY 2003 - under continuing resolutions, NSF could only 

fund the contract at the FY 2002 rate—$475,000 per 

quarter 
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Contract Funding – Status of Contract Deliverables (cont.)

Early Deliverables Delayed

First draft FY03 Q2 4/1/03 4/1/03 FY03 Q4 9/30/03

First draft FY03 Q2 1/1/03 1/103 FY03 Q4 TBD

Refinement FY04 Q1 10/1/03 FY04 Q4 TBD

Resource allocationb FY03 Q4 7/1/03 FY05 Q3 TBD

Performance assessmentb FY03 Q4 7/1/03 FY05 Q3 TBD

Award management and oversightb FY03 Q1 10/1/03 FY05 Q3 TBD

Merit reviewb FY03 Q1 10/1/03 FY05 Q3 TBD

Initial review of workforce FY02 Q3 7/1/02 7/1/02 FY02 Q4 9/30/02 9/30/02

Initial assessment FY02 Q3 7/02 7/02 FY03 Q1 9/30/03

Current Actual

Estimate

Original 

Estimate

Current Actual

Estimate

Original 

Estimate

Final report Report FY05 Q3 4/1/05 FY05 Q4 TBD

Refinement FY05 Q1 10/1/04 FY05 Q3 TBD

Refinement FY04 Q1 10/1/03 FY04 Q4 TBD

IT and enterprise 

architecture plan

Refinement FY05 Q1 10/1/04 FY05 Q3 TBD

Human capital 

management plan

Knowledge management FY04 Q4 7/1/04 FY05 Q3 TBD

Business analysis 

plans for core 

business 

processes

Complete documentation FY02 Q3 7/1/02 7/1/02 FY03 Q1 9/30/03

Current 

environment

Project web page FY02 Q3 7/02 1/03 FY03 Q1 5/31/03

Business analysis 

assessment

7/15/03a Project plan Plan FY02 Q3 6/26/02 6/26/02 FY02 Q3

Start date Completion date

Outputs Contract deliverables 

Note: Shaded areas highlight actual or anticipated delays in the start and completion dates of contract deliverables.

a

The estimated completion date for the project plan has been updated to reflect NSF’s most current estimate; the estimated completion date

reported in the briefing was June 30, 2003.

bThese deliverables are planned to have multiple revisions over the 3-year period of the contract.
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Management Issues

Summary

• Key management issues identified by audit and 

oversight bodies are to be assessed by the 

contractor to determine the final scope of work for 

each issue. 

• Until the project plan is completed, however, it is 

unclear how and the extent to which these issues 

will be addressed.
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Management Issues

Issues Identified by Oversight Bodies 

• Management issues are to be addressed within the scope of the contract.

Budget performance

Contracting out activities

Project and award management

Financial management

Information technology

Human capital

Management issues Yes No OMB GAO OIG

Included in scope

of the contract? Issues cited by
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Management Issues

Issues to Be Addressed in Contract

• One or more management issue is to be addressed by each deliverable.

Project and award 

management

Business 

process 

analysis

Current 

environment 

Business 

process 

assessment

Project 

plan

Contract deliverables

Management

issues

Contracting out 

activities

Financial 

managementa

Budget 

performance

Information 

technology

Human 

capital

Human capital 

management 

plan

IT and enterprise 

architecture plan

a

The scope of the contract’s survey work includes an assessment of financial management related issues. However, until that

assessment is done and a project plan is completed, the extent to which those issues will be included in the contract deliverables

is unknown.
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Management Issues

Specific Management Challenges

• The majority of specific management challenges identified by audit and oversight 

bodies are to be included within the scope of the contract.

Project and award 

management

• Maintain merit review while fostering diversity 3

• Ensure accountability for cost sharing

• Improve financial oversight, especially large facility and research projects 3

Financial management • Improve financial performance, including erroneous payments

• Improve credit card monitoring

• Tie resources to results 3

Contracting out activities • Increase competitive sourcing 3

Budget performance • Use multiple accounts to fund program resources

• Improve cost accounting systems

• Allocate more funding to office space and travel 3

• Expand electronic government 3

Information technology • Strengthen information security 3

• Create results-oriented organizational culture 3

• Develop strategic workforce planning 3

• Develop recruitment and retention strategy 3

• Improve learning and development 3

3

In scope?

• Develop succession planning

Human capital

Management issues Specific challenges oversight agencies Identified
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Contract Oversight and Management 

Summary

• Structure is in place to oversee and manage the contract.

• NSF contract management has kept senior management, the National

Science Board, and the NSF OIG apprised of contract progress and plans.

• Initial contract documents anticipate that the contract will result in 

recommendations and implementation plans. 

• NSF requested $1 million in the FY 2004 budget to implement human 

capital recommendations anticipated from the contractor and will request 

additional appropriations, as necessary, to implement any 

recommendations identified in the future.
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Contract Oversight and Management

Business Analysis Plan Contract Management

BAH Business 

Analysis Plan

Contractor 

Project Manager

BAH

Quality 

Assurance 

Review Board

National Science 

Board’s Audit 

& Oversight

Committee

Business & 

Operations 

Advisory 

Committee

Contracting 

Officer's Technical 

Representative

(COTR)

Business 

Analysis Plan 

Contract Steering 

Committee

Senior 

Management

Office of 

Inspector

General

Supervisory

Advisory

Monitoring

Legend:
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Contract Oversight and Management 

NSF Contract Management

BAH Business 

Analysis Plan 

Contractor 

Project Manager

BAH 

Quality 

Assurance 

Review Board

National Science 

Board’s Audit & 

Oversight 

Committee

Business & 

Operations 

Advisory 

Committee

Contracting Officer’s Technical

Representative

• Has day-to-day responsibility for managing 

the contract

• Chairs the steering committee 

• Briefs senior management and committees

Business Analysis Plan Contract Steering Committee

• COTR, chair

• Senior agency management and non-management staff

with expertise in all program areas covered by the contract

Senior 

Management

Office of 

Inspector

General

Supervisory

Advisory

Monitoring

Legend:
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Contract Oversight and Management 

NSF Contract Oversight – Senior Management

National Science 

Board’s Audit 

& Oversight

Committee

Business & 

Operations 

Advisory 

Committee

Senior Management

• Heads of most research 

directorates, and staff offices 

(e.g. General Counsel) briefed

• Senior management team briefed twice

• Deputy Director/Chief Operating

Officer briefed 

• Director present at briefings to the

National Science Board’s Audit and

Oversight Committee

BAH Business 

Analysis Plan 

Contractor 

Project Manager

BAH Quality 

Assurance 

Review Board

Contracting 

Officer’s 

Technical Office of Representative Inspector

General

Business Analysis

Plan Contract

Steering 

Committee

Supervisory

Advisory

Monitoring

Legend:
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Contract Oversight and Management

NSF Contract Oversight – Committees

Business & Operations 

Advisory Committee 

• External members from 

universities, foundations, 

businesses, etc.

• Advises Directors of Budget,

Finance, and Award Management,

and Information and Resource

Management on oversight and 

other issues to improve business

processes 

• Briefed twice – 10/02 and 4/03

• Briefings planned every 6 months

National Science Board’s 

Audit and Oversight 

Committee

• Members of the National

Science Board

• Standing committee 

stays apprised of audit 

and oversight issues

and makes 

recommendations 

to the board

• Briefed 3 times –

3/02, 8/02, & 3/03

Senior 

Management

BAH Business 

Analysis Plan 

Contractor 

Project Manager

BAH Quality 

Assurance 

Review Board

Contracting 

Officer’s 

Technical Office of Representative Inspector

General

Business Analysis

Plan Contract

Steering 

Committee

Supervisory

Advisory

Monitoring

Legend:
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Contract Oversight and Management 

NSF Contract Oversight – NSF Inspector General

NSF Office of Inspector General

• Received information about the 

scope and methodology of the 

business analysis plan upon

request

• Received briefing in October 2002

Senior 

Management

BAH Business 

Analysis Plan 

Contractor 

Project Manager

BAH Quality 

Assurance 

Review Board

Contracting 

Officer’s 

Technical 

Representative

Business Analysis

Plan Contract

Steering 

Committee

National Science 

Board’s Audit 

& Oversight

Committee

Business & 

Operations 

Advisory 

Committee

Supervisory

Advisory

Monitoring

Legend:
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Contract Oversight and Management 

Booz-Allen-Hamilton

Business Analysis 

Plan Contract 

Steering 

Committee

National Science 

Board’s Audit & 

Oversight

Committee

Business & 

Operations 

Advisory

Committee

Booz-Allen-Hamilton Business Analysis 

Plan Contractor Project Manager

• Reports to the NSF COTR

• Responsible for integrating all major areas of 

contract – human capital, business process, and IT

• Provides monthly progress reports: work

accomplished, anticipated issues, planned

work, and deliverable status

• Briefs Steering Committee every 6 weeks

• Holds weekly status meetings with COTR

• Talks with COTR daily

• Meets with human capital and IT team weekly

• Briefs other senior management as requested

Senior 

Management

Booz-Allen-Hamilton Quality Assurance

Review Board

• Staffed with executive personnel

with expertise in contract areas

• Ensures the right technical skills and 

competencies are available for the contract

• Conducts analysis and provides briefings

to NSF as needed

Office of 

Inspector

General

Contracting 

Officer’s 

Technical 

Representative

Supervisory

Advisory

Monitoring

Legend:
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Contract Oversight and Management

Implementation of Contractor Recommendations

• NSF requested $1 million in FY 2004 budget to implement human 

capital recommendations anticipated from the contractor.

• NSF plans to request additional appropriations, as necessary, to

implement any recommendations identified in the future.
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Related Studies at NSF

Summary

• Two other ongoing studies concern NSF’s management 

challenges:

• A National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) study is addressing the agency’s organizational, programmatic, and 

personnel structures, and 

• A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study is addressing the agency’s management of the large facilities program. 

• NSF has taken steps to ensure that both of these studies are 

coordinated with the contract for the business analysis plan.
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Related Studies at NSF

NAPA

• Congressionally mandated to study NSF’s organizational, 

programmatic, and personnel structures

• NAPA awarded $1 million contract

• Contract awarded on March 14, 2003; final report due April 

2004
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Related Studies at NSF

NAS

• Congressionally mandated to study NSF’s management of 

large-scale construction projects and the priority-setting 

process for selecting projects to be funded 

• NAS awarded $600,000 grant 

• Awarded on January 29, 2003; final report due April 

2004
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Related Studies at NSF

Coordination with NAPA and NAS

• To address concerns over potential overlap of work on the NAPA and Business 

Analysis Plan contracts:

• NSF’s statement-of-work for the NAPA contract states that it is vital that the 

contractor coordinate its work with the NSF business analysis contract effort;

• The Business and Operations Advisory Committee urged NAPA and BAH to coordinate closely; and 

• Booz-Allen-Hamilton and NAPA plan to hold regular monthly meetings over the life of the NAPA contract to coordinate activities. 

• To address any potential for overlap of work on the NAS grant, the COTR for the 

business analysis contract plans to coordinate with NAS grant efforts. Large facility 

management has been identified as a management challenge for NSF and is to be 

included in the scope of the business analysis plan.

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