The Second Day for the NASA I3P Industry Day was held in Washington DC on April 22, 2009. The focus of this Industry Day was the three remaining I3P Acquisitions that weren't discussed on the first day of the Industry Day: Web Enterprise Service Technologies (West), Enterprise Applications Service Technologies (EAST), and Agency Consolidated End User Services (ACES).

Web Enterprise Service Technologies (WEST):

Brian Dunbar provided a deep briefing on the WEST program, and NASA's expectations from the WEST contractor. The WEST contract will be managed out of NASA's Headquarters and the COTR for the program will be NASA's Web Program Executive.

Contract highlights:

• The WEST contract will be conducted within a Firm Fixed Price framework
• 2 Year Base, with 3 One Year Option periods

Brian stated that it is important that the transition to WEST will be invisible to external customers, and largely invisible to NASA users. The presentation he provided on WEST was very detailed, and the slides are anticipated to be released by NASA later this week.

As a final note, Brian said that he welcomes vendor comments and questions on the Draft RFP.

Enterprise Applications Service Technologies (EAST):

Amy Stapleton the Technical Lead for the EAST contract, provided an overview of NASA's expectations for the EAST Contract. EAST will be managed by NASA's Office of the Chief Information Officer and will provide support to Enterprise Applications offered by NASA's Enterprise Applications Competency Center (NEACC).

She also stated that UNITeS contract with SAIC is the primary incumbent for EAST, and part of the shift associated with moving to the EAST contract is to move away from the Cost Reimbursement model currently employed by NEACC and UNITeS. Since EAST is a Firm Fixed Price environment, the program office for EAST has developed a mechanism to define minimum and maximum workload expected out of this contract.

Contract Highlights:

• 2 Year Base, 1 Two year option, 1 One Year Option
• The Contract will cover:
• Program Management
• Applications Operations
• Applications Implementation
• Delivery Functions
• Cumulative small business target of 18%

Agency Consolidated End User Services (ACES):

Don Sosoka and Tracy Hall of NASA's Shared Service Center provided the briefing on the ACES contract. Don stated that the ACES contractor will conduct technology infusion and transformation activities.

The ACES contract is expected to have three main components:

• General Services – A variety of end user services
• ACES Product Catalog
• Enhancement Support Services
• Infrastructure Upgrade Proposals
• Base Services
• Includes Email, calendaring services, and other services
• Seat Services
• Bundled Hardware, Software, System Administration and associated infrastructure

Contract Highlights:

• Single award Firm Fixed Price ID/IQ contract
• Minimum value of $5M, Maximum value of $2.5B
• A 10 year period of performance
• 4 Year Base, 2 Three Year options

The phase in for the contract is anticipated to start on April 1, 2010, and fully implemented across NASA by September 1, 2010. These dates are subject to change.

Concluding Remarks:

Bobby German the Chief Information Officer for NASA provided the concluding remarks for the Industry Day and shared his guiding principles for IT, and also his Top 5 IT challenges.

Guiding Principles:

• Not implementing IT for IT's sake. He wants to implement a structure that supports NASA's mission and customers
• Integration
• Efficiency across all services
• Security

Top 5 Challenges:

• IT Security
• Budget
• The I3P Program
• Continuing to meet current IT demands
• Rapidly responding to change

Background Information:

As stated in yesterdays blog please see INPUT's related I3P Opportunity Reports for the released Draft RFPs, and developing updates of NASA's I3P Program.