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Project Title:       GSA Advantage! On-line Shopping Site

Agency:       General Services Administration

Project Contact:  Al Iagnemmo, Project Manager, GSA Advantage

Phone:          703-305-6803

Email:           al.iagnemmo@gsa.gov

Website:                      www.gsaadvantage.gov

GSA Advantage is the largest federal government Internet based on-line shopping site. It allows government customers to quickly and easily conduct procurement research and order products and services to support their agency. This site, which is available at www.gsaadvantage.gov, allows government personnel to use the government credit card or their agency accounts to purchase products and services from a database that contains more than one million products from more than 2,000 vendors. Customers can also use their zip codes to sign on and conduct procurement research using the GSA Advantage database of products and services.

Project Title:       Sailor Arranged Move (SAM)

Agency:       Department of the Navy

Project Contact:  Aaron Morrison, Assistant Deputy Commander for Support Services

Phone:          717-605-7238

Email:           Aaron_K_Morrison@navsup.navy.mil

Website:                      www.navysup.navy.mil

The military household goods moving system is thirty-five years old and has been assessed to be irreparably broken. Since 1993, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been trying to develop a new system based upon commercial practices as a major quality of life initiative. As one of three DOD approved pilot programs for reengineering household goods moving processes, Sailor Arranged Move (SAM) provides the service member with a voice in the moving process for the first time. SAM is unique in that the customer selects their carrier of choice, receives the benefit of full value protection for damaged goods, and enjoys features such as direct expedited claims settlement with the carrier and intransit visibility via toll free numbers. Acquisition streamlining has been used to provide the foundation for the program and as a vehicle for obtaining industry support.

Project Title:       100% Access, 0 Disparities Transaction

Agency:       Department of Health and Human Services

Project Contact:  Regan L. Crump, DrPH, Acting Deputy Director

Phone:          301-594-4110

Email:           rcrump@hrsa.gov

The Campaign for 100% Access to Health Care and 0 Health Disparities is a community-driven initiative to transform the nation's health care system for the underserved - from the bottom up. The Bureau of Primary Health Care is deploying the national assets developed over its 30 year history of health care for the underserved in new, strategic ways to lead and nurture this community-by-community transformation. It has as assets: a tremendous commitment to mission; 12 statutory programs with over $1 billion in annual resources; an extensive, connected, highly capable primary health care infrastructure in 3000 communities; replicable, proven community benchmarks and methods for achieving 100% Access and 0 Disparities results; and a growing network of influential, capable, committed partners like United Way, National Association of Counties, American Academy of Pediatrics, State Primary Care Associations and others. The Bureau's business strategy is to use each of these assets to enroll and support community leadership teams in setting and achieving clear, measureable goals; to provide 100% Access to Health Care; and to eliminate the health status disparities that have plagued the Nation for over 200 years.

Project Title:       Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition

Agency:       NASA

Project Contact: Bill Watson NASA Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition Chief, Rapid Spacecraft Development Office

Phone:          301-286-1289

Email:           Bill.watson@gsfc.nasa.gov

Website:                      http://rsdo.gsfc.nasa.gov

The Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition creates catalogs of commercial spacecraft that can be contracted for by any US Government agency using a simple delivery order process. This innovative acquisition approach combines several streamlining initiatives to reduce the average contracting time from 12 months to 3 months. Delivery times have been cut to 24 to 36 months instead of 48 to 56 months and costs have been reduced by as much as $20M per mission.

Project Title:       Regional Fleet Support in Northern Europe & the Baltic States

Agency:       Department of the Navy

Project Contact:  K.R. Wheelock, Officer-in-Charge

Phone:          011-44-208-385-5301

Email:           kwheelock@post.nctsl.navy.mil

NRCC Detachment London (NRCC) operates a network of three husbanding contractors covering all of Northern Europe and the Baltic States with a series of long-term, price-based, commercial-item contracts with performance-based Statements of Work. The husbanding contractor greets the U.S. Navy ship (or submarine) upon its arrival in a foreign country and provides an interface between the ship and the commercial resources ashore. Since the ship is frequently at the end of its organic logistics pipeline, the husbanding contractor provides total logistics support to the visiting ship with required supplies and services.

Project Title:       A Lesson in Change: Procurement Reinvention at the US Mint

Agency:       Department of the Treasury

Project Contact:  Coleen Vogel, Director of Procurement

Phone:          202-354-7822

Email:           cvogel@usmint.treas.gov

Website:                      www.usmint.gov

The U.S. Mint has learned two "Lessons in Change": 1) the importance of approaching colleagues, customers, and vendors as partners who benefit from best practices; and 2) the imperative of empowering the procurement staff to adopt those practices. The Mint's objective has been to modernize, professionalize, and expedite procurement by making the business of the Mint their business. By working to understand and assist in meeting their agency's mission, they are developing practices that maintain the integrity and ethics expected of government procurement professionals while adopting value-added, strategic practices that deliver exceptional service.

Project Title:       "Express Mart" Online Ordering of Office and Common Use Supplies

Agency:       Department of the Navy

Project Contact:  Mary L. O'Brien, Contracting Officer

Phone:          619-532-2556

Email:            Mary_l_o'brien@sd.fisc.navy.mil

"Express Mart" is the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC) San Diego's initiative to support their customer's general use consumable material requirements in a fast and efficient manner that exceeds today's commercial standards. "Express Mart" makes use of the latest commercial technologies and practices, such as online ordering capability, to improve the availability, quality, and service at a significantly reduced cost. Their vision is to provide customers an Electronic Order Entry (EOE) Catalog System with Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery. Items are consolidated by a Prime Vendor for single direct-delivery to the customer.

Project Title:       Business Process Reengineering Elevator Maintenance and Repair Services

Agency:       General Services Administration

Project Contact:  Dolly Fernandez, Acquisition Executive, Region 8

Phone:          303-236-4300 x 250

Email:           dolly.fernandez@gsa.gov

Website:                      www.rmrpbs.gsa.gov

GSA's Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project for Elevator Maintenance and Repair Services is a multi-regional partnership between GSA Regions 4, 6, 7, 8 and four of the top elevator manufacturers in the industry. Prior to the BPR team's implementation of this endeavor, elevator maintenance was procured by an individual building or local group of buildings and was awarded to the lowest bidder, with no consideration of best value. Under the reengineered, source selection process,  the elevators and escalators are grouped by manufacturer, with multiple awards made to Dover, Millar, Montgomery, and Schindler Elevator Companies. This procurement concentrated on the best value for the Government with the quality of services being far more important than price.  Still, they are now paying less for superior service.