1. Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Conference March 5, 2009 Technology and Telecommunications

2. Federal Acquisition Service Agenda  Overview of Integrated Technology Services  GWACS  Schedule 70  Connections MAC  SmartBuy  Q&A 2

3. Federal Acquisition Service How FAS Can Help  GWACs: Offer streamlined options for Contracting Officers who need to quickly acquire IT services and solutions in an effective manner, while still adhering to all federal acquisition regulations. Premier IT contractor pool Reduced acquisition lead time Contract in place Streamlined ordering process Competition through “Fair Opportunity” process Flexibility Broad IT scope Total solution Agency-specific clauses may be added at Order level Various contract types GWAC training and customer support services  www.gsa.gov/gwacs 3

4. Federal Acquisition Service How FAS Can Help  GWACS Available Alliant Small Business COMMITS NexGen 8(a) STARS VETS GWAC ANSWER Millennia Millennia Lite 4

5. Federal Acquisition Service Examples Client U.S. Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (PEO STRI) Scope Provide Life Cycle Support for all US Army Virtual Training devices Worldwide (VT LCCS) over 8,000 virtual training devices in over 500 locations worldwide. These systems are of various configurations, complexities and age. Each class of system requires a unique and tailored support to meet the Army training requirements. Task Order Value/Task Type: $752M/Performance Based Fixed Price/T&M Result Using GSA’s ANSWER GWAC, the Army acquired this complex IT solution, with thorough competition (5 offers), in only 52 days. Customer Feedback: What did you like best about using a GWAC? “The basic award was well thought out and established a good framework for the Task Order that we awarded off of it. All we had to do was to add the DoD specific clauses out of the DFARS. GSA also delegated to us the administrative functions that allowed us to manage our effort using our resident in-house experts.” 5

6. Federal Acquisition Service How FAS Can Help  Schedule 70: Offers a broad range of state-of-the-art Information Technology Products and Services through approximately 5000 contracts. Contracts in place Fair & reasonable pricing (most-favored customer discounts) Reduced procurement lead-time (less paperwork & documentation) Direct relationships with contractors Customized solutions (contractor teaming) No additional administrative fees www.gsa.gov/schedule70 6

7. Federal Acquisition Service Examples Continued  The Schedule 70 and GWAC teams trained HHS contracting officers on the proper use of GSA Information Technology Acquisition Vehicles. HHS can now use that training to utilize GSA vehicles to upgrade technology in their Indian health service hospitals and health clinics. (Identified Stimulus Set Aside- $500M) 7

8. Federal Acquisition Service How FAS/Connections Can Help  Connections Contract Overview National Telecommunications Infrastructure focused on buildings and campuses Multiple Award ID/IQ Full and Open Competition Delivery / Task Order Model Fair Opportunity 3 Categories (Equipment, Services, and Solutions) www.gsa.gov/connections 8

9. Federal Acquisition Service  Government Technology Improvements Update SSA computer center Upgrade State Department IT Platforms Improve IT at Farm Service Agency Improve security at Dept of Agriculture HQ  Federal Public Building Infrastructure Improvements Veterans Health and National Cemetery Admin.  Homeland Security Airport Screening Equipment and Port Security Connections Contract could help with the following from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 9

10. Federal Acquisition Service How FAS/Connections Can Help  Connections Contract Details Fast and easy to use High degree of flexibility and customer choice No project too big or too small 14 prime contractors and their 500+ subs Dovetails well with GSA transport contracts 10

11. Federal Acquisition Service Connections Example  General Technology Improvements Design, install, operate, manage, and/or maintain telecommunications in buildings and campuses Inside and outside wire and cable Network management centers Call Centers Servers Web Architecture 11

12. Federal Acquisition Service Connections Example  Federal Public Building Infrastructure Improvements Network equipment, support and solutions Wired or wireless Infrastructure upgrades Smart Buildings – Create integrated solutions with PBS Dovetails well with GSA transport contracts 12

13. Federal Acquisition Service Connections Example  Homeland Security Data servers and routers Cameras Building and campus wiring 13

14. Federal Acquisition Service Customers Win with CONNECTIONS  Federal Trade Commission Awarded a 5 year CONNECTIONS contract to Apptis, Inc. CONNECTIONS Category 2 award Manage a centralized service call center, supporting several locations Provide on-site end user support to several locations 14

15. Federal Acquisition Service Customers Win with CONNECTIONS  General Services Administration Maintenance & support of 26 PBX switches throughout Region 9 (California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Pacific territories) Approximately 62% cost savings over 5 years Task was issued, awarded and implemented in approx. 3 months 15

16. Federal Acquisition Service How FAS Can Help  SmartBUY, the enterprise software program, has 31 agreements in place that save money, and improve security, configuration management and standardization. SmartBUY: Achieved tiered, discount pricing for commodity products Partnered with interagency Lines of Business (LoB) to establish BPAs that meet agencies’ technical requirements Aligns technical architecture with OMB policies Saved customers over $165M in FY 2008 www.gsa.gov/smartbuy 16

17. Federal Acquisition Service How FAS Can Help  Situational Awareness and Incident Response Tools SmartBUY BPAs have just been awarded for FDCC Baseline Configuration Management and Vulnerability Scanning/ Remediation tools to support OMB’s policy memoranda M-07-18, M-08-05, and M-08-22. Core requirements: software must have passed NIST’s validation testing for Secure Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) and for FIPS 140-2 Encryption. SmartBUY’s push for SCAP validation ensured that 17 more products were SCAP validated in less than one year.  Geospatial Initiative In January 2008, the Geospatial LoB approached SmartBUY to partner on multiple award BPAs for Geospatial solutions Geospatial LoB includes working group members from GSA, DHS, DOI, DOD, DOJ, NOAA and others The SmartBUY / Geospatial LoB Solicitation is currently being developed 17

18. Federal Acquisition Service Examples  In June 2007, eleven BPAs were established offering data encryption solutions for sensitive data on laptops, USB and external drives  As of December 2008, agencies purchased 1.7 million licenses, spent $27 million and saved the taxpayer $95 million through the use of the SmartBUY data encryption BPAs 18

19. Federal Acquisition Service Schedule Points of Contact GWACS: Jim Ghiloni: 703-306-7568, jim.ghiloni@gsa.gov Schedule 70: Mike O’Neill: 703-605-2667, michael.o’neill@gsa.gov Connections MAC: Debbie Clark: 703-306-6546, deborah.clark@gsa.gov SmartBuy: John Schwarz: 703-306-7687, john.schwarz@gsa.gov 19

20. Federal Acquisition Service Helpful Web Addresses  GSA Homepage - www.gsa.gov  Information about the MAS Program - www.gsa.gov/schedules  GSA Advantage!® - www.gsaadvantage.gov  GSA eLibrary - www.gsa.gov/elibrary  e-Buy - www.gsa.gov/ebuy  Schedules Ordering Guide - www.gsa.gov/CMLS Search for “Desk Reference Guide”  Customer Service Director Contact Info - ww.gsa.gov/csd  Additional Information on Services Schedules Ordering - http://schedulesolutions.net/  Helpful Search Tool - http://sites.google.com/site/advantageplusbeta/ 20

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