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NCMA Voice

March 2014

MEMBERSHIP MEETING Where: DoubleTree Hotel

When: Wednesday March 5, 2014

Social: 11:30 am

Lunch: 11:45 am

Cost: $15.00 for Members $20.00 for Non-Members Speakers: MR. JACK (DAVE) PATTERSON

Director, North American Joint Development Agreement Partnerships for N12 Technologies

Topic: MOVING THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE CONTINUOUS SHOULD COST

ESTIMATING A CULTURAL IMPERATIVE

Menu: Fresh Garden Salad Ranch or Honey Dijon Dressing

Rolled Roast Beef w/Mushroom Gravy Horseradish Mashed Potatoes Glazed Baby Carrots

Assorted Dinner Rolls with Butter C Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Sauce

Coffee, Decaf, Iced Tea, Water ~ Please pay at the door with cash, personal check, or company check only. ~

Reservations UMUSTU be made by Tuesday, March 4 by 11:00 a.m. Please contact Vicki Dyer at 483-9332 or HUvdyer@scisale.comUH. Space is limited. The charges for late reservations or walk-ins are: $22.50 for Members $24.00 for Non-Members

PRESIDENT’S CORNER Dear Members, The February meeting program featured an update on the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) Project, as presented by Rich Brown, Procurement Director for the Project. In his presentation, Rich conveyed pertinent facts to us on the background of UPF and brought us up to date on the current status of the Project. He reiterated the importance of this project to the area and to DOE. He also addressed the timeline for the procurement of the various goods and services needed over the life of the project. In March, we will have an opportunity to hear from Dave Patterson about “Continuous Should Cost Esti-mating.” Mr. Patterson was with the University of Tennessee at the time his article on the subject was published in the November 2013 issue of Contract Management Magazine. If you happen to be exploring the National NCMA website and go to the page where the World Congress 2014 information can be found, you might recognize some of the people in the first picture on that page as it is of the East Tennessee Chapter attendees at last year’s World Congress 2013. East Tennessee Chapter members pictured from right to left are: Steve Dickinson, John Phelps, Heidi Timmerman, Faye Orick, Landon Hill, Judy Franklin, and Sonny Rogers.

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Upcoming events and items of interest from NCMA National: Voting begins February 14, 2014 for selection of the New NCMA National Board of Directors. All current NCMA members are eligible to vote. Voting is conducted online until Friday, February 28, 2014. NCMA Webinars: March 6: Intellectual Property – Ownership, Licens-ing, and Markings, Oh MY! March 20: Square Peg, Round Hole – Challenges Faced by GSA Schedule Services Contractors Information on World Congress 2014 to be held in Washington DC is available on the NCMA website Judy Franklin President

SPEAKER MR. JACK D. (DAVE) PATTERSON

Mr. Patterson is the former Ex-ecutive Director, National De-fense Business Institute (NDBI) at the University of Tennessee in the College of Business Admin-istration. NDBI encouraged business innovation for both government and industry by providing practical, sound assis-

tance in creating economically efficient and effective Defense business and acquisition programs. Prior to this, he was the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). As the Principal Deputy, he was directly responsible for advising and assisting the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) with devel-opment, execution and oversight of the DoD budget exceeding $515 billion with annual supplemental re-quests of more than $160 billion as well as developing legislative strategies, and developing and implement-ing DoD financial policy, financial management sys-

tems, and business modernization programs. In June 2005 Mr. Patterson was appointed to lead the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Project, a com-prehensive evaluation of every aspect of the Defense Department acquisition system and decision making processes.

From August 2003 to June 2005, Mr. Patterson held duties as The Special Assistant to the Deputy Secre-tary of Defense. In this capacity, Mr. Patterson was responsible for managing the Deputy Secretary of De-fense’s personal staff as well as providing direction and advice to the Office of the Secretary of Defense Staff on a wide range of national security operations and policy subjects. He contributed to the Department of Defense support to the United States’ mission to es-tablish free and economically successful societies and governments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally, Mr. Patterson supported the Deputy Secretary in the areas of military commissions for detainees in the Global War on Terrorism and major defense acquisi-tion programs.

Before returning to government service, Mr. Patterson was a founding and managing partner at Bucher, Hutchins, Kohler and Patterson, Inc. where he led the firm’s commercial consulting practice developing management strategies for acquiring new business. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Vice President and Site Manager for Steven Myers and Associates’ sup-port to Lockheed Martin Corporation’s winning Joint Strike Fighter competitive proposal preparation.

Mr. Patterson was an Air Force officer from 1970 to 1993 retiring in the rank of colonel. During that time, he held responsible leadership and management posi-tions with assignments at the air wing level as a C-5A aircraft commander and Deputy Operations Group Commander, at major command headquarters, U.S. Air Force, the Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, In-spector General. In 1986, Mr. Patterson was the Air Force Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He

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served in Vietnam flying O2As as forward air control-ler. He has a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychol-ogy from Chapman University and is a graduate of the NATO Defense College. Mr. Patterson is the Director, North American Joint Development Agreement Partnerships for N12 Tech-nologies, a leading Carbon Nanotube composites com-pany and is the founder and Managing Partner of Cas-tlebridge Keep, LLC, a business capture and business strategy development firm. Castlebridge Keep, LLC provides personal, tailored consulting services that are designed to improve clients’ potential for capturing greater market share and growing their business

NES ANNOUNCEMENT Save the date! NES this year will be held on April 22nd, 2014, and we are pleased to announce a dynamic topic with a highly sought after national instructor. Ms. Michelle Currier will be our instructor presenting “Developing Winning Proposals.” Registration forms and additional information will be distributed in a follow up email, as well as the March and April newsletters.

Date: April 22, 2014

Check in: 7:30-8:00

Duration: 8:00-4:00

Place: The Doubletree Hotel

215 South Illinois Avenue

Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Michelle Currier is a professor of contract management at the Defense Acquisition University and currently serves as the Mid-Atlantic course manager regional representative for the "FAR Fundamentals" course and the "Ask-A-Professor" program. Over the course of her 34-year career, she has served with distinction as a contracting officer, division chief, and director of contracts at the Naval Research Laboratory, Military Sealift Command,

Small Business Administration, Naval Sea Systems Command, and the Army Contracting Command. She is a graduate of the inaugural class for the U.S. Army's Senior Leadership Development Program and holds a BS and an MS in contracts and grants management from American University and is DAWIA Level III certified. She is a past national president of NCMA (2001-2002). Ms. Currier was recognized with the NCMA Alvis D. Keen Honorary Life Member Award (2010) and the Charles A. Dana Distinguished Service Award (2005). “Developing Winning Proposals: Proposal Preparation Techniques and Tips” is a one-day course designed to provide you with the nuts and bolts you need to review a request for proposal (RFP), put a proposal team together, and develop the detailed cost estimates you need to convince a customer that you can best satisfy their needs. This seminar is designed for everyone involved in the development and response to an RFP. In addition to contract management professionals, this presentation also benefits anyone involved in the acquisition process: managers, directors, financial analysts, engineers, and business development employees, among others. The seminar is designed to acquaint those new to the proposal process with the unique skills necessary to respond to government customer (or prime contractor) RFP. However, the course also has enough substance to ensure that even those with a great deal of experience in preparing proposals will learn something they will be able to apply to their work as soon as they get back to the office. The end goal of this one-day, action-packed seminar is to ensure that attendees leave with a deeper appreciation for ensuring their proposal is responsive to the RFP; the team is correctly assembled and led; and that the resulting cost, technical, and management volumes present their company in the best possible light-increasing the likelihood of a contract award.

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EDUCATION CLASSES Contract Management Body of Knowledge We have completed the FAR classes and plan to begin a “Contract Management Body of Knowledge” class in April if we can get enough interested students. This class will cover the UCC and the FAR. After we complete this class, we will go into the CPCM study class. These classes are there to help you prepare for the CPCM certification. If you are interested, please email Faye Orick at faye.orick-goins@canberra.com expressing your interest. Congratulations to all the students who completed the FAR classes!

EDUCATION COURSES The University of Tennessee, under the Center of Industrial Services, is offering a Nuclear Industry Supplier Development Program. The program has been created to help companies:

1. Evaluate the potential business opportunities in the nuclear field.

2. Understand the impact of incorporating nuclear compliant operations, and

3. Provide nuclear supplier development training that has been designed to prepare your company to be a successful nuclear industry supply chain partner

The intent of the program is to develop Nuclear and Energy Project Supplier Capabilities in an effort to encourage more local content in the Y-12 National Security Complex Uranium Processing Facility (Y12-UPF) project. Please see attached information sheet for further information.

TRAINING OPPORTUNITY The “NCMA’s Audits Virtual Conference 2014 -Strategies for Today's High Stakes Contracting Environment” on March 25, 2014 from 12:00pm -4:00pm (EST). Online webcast training will be held at ORAU’s Pollard Technology and Conference Center Classrooms 240/242. Please see Link: http://www.ncmahq.org/Events/content.cfm?ItemNumber=16966 for details. The board decided that members can attend the event for free and non-members will pay $20.00. Anyone interested can send me an email to register at allen.wash@orau.org

MEMBERSHIP SPOTLIGHT

Rebecca Rupp is the CEO/Owner of Barr Technical Services, LLC. She has over 20 years of experience in project management and contract management with government and private enterprises. Rebecca holds a BS in Business and Legal Administration. Before relocating from Washington to Oak Ridge, she held key positions with Boeing Computer Services, Hospice, and Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNNL) where she was a Contracts Specialist. In 2006, Rebecca received the Community Spirit Award from Battelle Memorial

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Institute. Rebecca has been very active in her local community throughout her career, having served as the elected Mayor for the City of West Richland, Washington, Board of Trustees for the Benton Rural Electric Association, and President for Benton County Public Facilities District for County Commissioners. In Oak Ridge, she serves on the Board of Trustees for the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge and is a Paul Harris Fellow and Board Member of the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club. In addition, she is an active member of the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce. Barr Technical Services, LLC is an 8(m) Economic Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) with pending SBA 8(a) Certification. The company offers consulting in the areas of Con-tract Support services, and, Radiation Protection Pro-gram development, Implementation and Assessment.

ELECTION COMMITTEE The following people have been elected by the Nominations & Election Committee for Officers For the 2014-2015 Program Year:

President – Heidi Timmerman President Elect – Landon Hill Chapter Advisor – Judy Franklin Treasurer – Laura Davis Secretary – Granda Humphrey

AWARDS NCMA has several awards to recognize the many out-standing efforts of our members. For a chapter with so many qualified members, we should really take ad-vantage of these. You can find a list of the national awards, as well as qualification and nomination in-formation at the following:

http://www.ncmahq.org/membership/Content.cfm?ItemNumber=9449&navItemNumber=10024

Feel free to contact the Honors and Awards chair, Jus-tin Keck (keckjc@ornl.gov), if you have any ques-tions. Being chosen for one of these prestigious awards will certainly enhance the winner’s resume, as well as serving as an excellent reflection on our chap-ter as a whole.

NEWSLETTER As always, if you have any thoughts or suggestions on how to make our newsletter more informative or useful, please let us know! Courtney Dyer courtney@edwardssupply.com Tracie Rucker tracie@edwardssupply.com

Developing Winning Proposals Seminar

Presented by the NES East Tennessee Chapter

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Tuesday April 22, 2014 at

8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

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Check-In: 7:30 AM to 8:00 AM

Where DoubleTree Hotel 215 South Illinois Ave. Oak Ridge, TN 37830

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Greetings,

Please join us for a full day, action-packed seminar that will leave you with a deeper appreciation and the exact techniques for developing winning proposals.

"Developing Winning Proposals: Proposal Preparation Techniques and Tips" is a one-day course designed to provide you with the nuts and bolts you need to review a request for proposal (RFP), put a proposal team together, and develop the detailed cost estimates you need to convince a customer that you can best satisfy their needs.

Speaker: Michelle Currier Professor of Contract Management at the

Defense Acquisition University

Topic: Developing Winning Proposals: Proposal Preparation Techniques & Tips

Michelle Currier is a professor of contract management at the Defense Acquisition University and currently serves as the Mid-Atlantic Course Manager regional representative for the new CON 090, Fundamentals course and the Ask-A-Professor program. Ms. Currier is certified in ACQ 453 Leader as Coach. Over the course of her 33-year career, she has served

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with distinction as a contracting officer, division chief, and director of contracts at the Naval Research Laboratory, Military Sealift Command, Small Business Administration, Naval Sea Systems Command, and the Army Contracting Command. Ms. Currier is a graduate of the inaugural class for the U.S. Army's Senior Leadership Development Program in 2007.

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NUCLEAR INDUSTRY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

The Nuclear Industry Supplier Development Program has been created to help companies:

1. Evaluate the potential business opportunities in the nuclear field, 2. Understand the impact of incorporating nuclear compliant operations, and 3. Provide nuclear supplier development training that has been designed to prepare your

company to be a successful nuclear industry supply chain partner.

This program is specifically developed to address the most frequent and critical supplier concerns that have been experienced on Nuclear and Energy projects. The intent of the program is to develop Nuclear and Energy Project Supplier Capabilities in effort to encourage more local content in the Y-12 National Security Complex Uranium Processing Facility (Y12-UPF) project and future Nuclear and Energy Projects. Learn more and register at: https://cis.tennessee.edu/train/programtraining/Nuclear/Pages/Nuclear.aspx

Center for IndustrIal servICes

Advanced Business Decision Seminar – Entering Nuclear/Energy Industry Supply ChainFEBRUARY 25, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Hope Center, Oak Ridge9AM - NOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fee: $35 (No fee w/ another course)Registration: http://bit.ly/Nuclear_Bus_Dec

Government Contracting Basics & Nuclear Customer RequirementsFEBRUARY 25, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Hope Center, Oak Ridge1PM - 5PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fee: $80Registration: http://bit.ly/GCBNuke

Handling Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)/Export Control Requirements & Government Property Management (GPM) for Nuclear Industry SuppliersFEBRUARY 26, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Hope Center, Oak Ridge8AM - 5PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fee: $260Registration: http://bit.ly/UNCI_ITAR

Project Management for Nuclear Industry SuppliersFEBRUARY 27, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Hope Center, Oak Ridge8AM - 5PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fee: $260Registration: http://bit.ly/Nukesupply

Nuclear Quality Systems IntroductionFEBRUARY 28, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Hope Center, Oak Ridge8AM - 3PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fee: $300Registration: http://bit.ly/Nukesys

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COURSE SERIES

Collaborative Partners: Y12-UPF Procurement, TN Department of Economic and Community Development, The University of Tennessee, and Gilmartin Engineering Works.

Register on-line, or call-in your registration toUT-Center for Industrial Services phone 615-253-6371 www.cis.tennessee.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTIONSAdvanced Business Decision Seminar – Entering Nuclear/Energy Industry Supply Chain Audience: Technical Manager and/or Chief Operating Officer type with Technical Understanding Objective: Provide enough detailed information for a company to know the long lead actions necessary to work with Y12-UPF; and make a bid/no-bid type decision based on the cost/benefit of upgrading a Quality Assurance (QA) program.

Government Contracting Basics & Nuclear CustomersThe Y12-UPF and future Nuclear and Energy business opportunities offer both great contract opportunities and challenges. Prospective subcontracting opportunities will be procured in a non-traditional manner and require more attention to detail. Also major projects of this type have a history of complicated commercial arrangements. In today’s competitive market it is imperative that companies identify any potential proposal advantages over other vendors and understand some of the pitfalls of contract administrative mishaps.

Handling UCNI, ITAR /Export Control Requirements & GPM for Nuclear Industry Suppliers Certain required federal mandates drive the procurement contracting process with the nuclear industry and the Y-12 National Security Complex. Companies interested in these procurements should understand three federally mandated elements namely the complex nature of handling sensitive information, export control information and the importance of Government Property Management to increase their competitive edge in capturing contracts in this field. After taking this course, businesses will be aware of the federal mandates, how facilities manage these mandates and the impacts to the procurement process for their respective products. In most cases, the impacts are minimal and can be built into existing elements of the business operations with assistance from Y-12 authorities. One of the main purposes of this class is to provide businesses with a path to succeed by providing business representatives actual examples, lessons learned, and some specifics relative to their organization/commodity commensurate with these mandates.

Project Management for Nuclear Industry Suppliers Seminar Course Content• FundamentalsofProjectManagementfromamanufacturer’sperspectivenotaconstructionjob• EngineeringChangeControlDiscipline• ProjectProgressMeasurement(EarnedValueManagement)relatedtoaNuclearProjectProcurement• RequiredweeklyProjectreportthathighlightsexceptions

Nuclear Quality Systems IntroductionObjective: Provide detailed information for a company to know the long lead actions necessary to upgrade a QA program to work on nuclear projects.

• Overviewofrequirementsforanuclearsupplier• DiscussionofthecurrentnuclearmarketandhowtoleverageaQAprogramupgradetoaccessnewopportunities• DescriptionofhowQArequirementsareappliedtothesetypesofprocurements.• Elementbyelementrequirementspresented.Alsofocusonthedeltabetweentheaudience(InternationalOrganizationfor

Standardization (ISO) or other programs) and Nuclear Quality Assurance-1 (NQA-1)

If you have further questions, please contact one of the following:

DwaineRaper,SolutionsConsultant-423926-8282-dwaine.raper@tennessee.eduBillWiley,EconomicDevelopmentConsultant-865974-8464-bill.wiley@tennessee.eduPaulMiddlebrooks,PTACFieldConsultant-423634-0848-paul.middlebrooks@tennessee.edu

The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services.

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Program Schedule

2013-2014

September 4, 2013 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: Barbara Jackson Director, DOE Procurement & Contracts Division, Oak Ridge.

September 18, 2013 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

October 2, 2013 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: Laura Davis President, Strategic Consulting Solutions, Inc. Topic: RECENT UPDATES ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACT AUDITS

October 1, 2013 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

November 6, 2013 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: Janice Ziegler GSA Customer Service Director Topic: GSA SOLUTIONS

November 21, 2013 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

December 4, 2013 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: Mark Watson Oak Ridge City Manager Topic: OAK RIDGE CITY NEGOTIATIONS- KROGER MARKETPLACE & MALL

December 19, 2013 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

January 8, 2014 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: Stacy Myers President/Owner of Advanced Management, Inc.. Topic: TEAM BUILDING

January 23, 2014 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

February 5, 2014 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: Richard Brown Director of Procurement, UPF Project Topic: URANIUM PROCESSING FACILITY (UPF) UPDATE

February 20, 2014 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

March 5, 2014 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: David Patterson Executive Director of the National Defense Business Institute Topic: CONTINUOUS-SHOULD COST ESTIMATING

March 20, 2014 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

April 22, 2014 National Education Seminar (NES)

Speaker: Michelle Currier Professor of Contract Management at the Defense Acquisition University Topic: DEVELOPING WINNING PROPOSALS

April 17, 2014 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

May 7, 2014 Membership Meeting 11:30 am DoubleTree Hotel

Speaker: Career Mentoring Luncheon

Y-12 Contractor.

May 22, 2014 Board Meeting 11:30 am Scientific Sales

June 4, 2014 Membership Appreciation & Scholarship Reception Oak Ridge, TN

Speaker: Various