Contracting Office
The Contracting Office (under the Chief of Staff directorate) provides centralized acquisition support for all nine Directorates across the Business Transformation Agency (BTA). The primary mission of the BTA is to assist in the efficiency of supporting the warfighter’s needs and to guide the stewardship of taxpayer dollars. The Contracting Office guides the transformation of the BTA contracting operations to ensure consistency, consolidation, compliance with current DoD policy, regulation and statutes, and coordination from the "determination of need" to the "contract closeout."
Governing Structure:
The Acquisition of Services Board was created as per the requirement of the Acquisition of Services Policy, dated October 2, 2006 signed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics – “Section 2330 of title 10, U.S. Code as amended by section 812 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2006.” The policy requires the establishment and implementation of a management structure for the acquisition of services in DoD.
Procurement Authority:
As a young agency (BTA was formed in October 2005), the BTA does not yet have procurement authority. Currently, contracts are awarded through the Army Information Technology, E-Commerce, and Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC4) and other contracting agencies. ITEC4 is an element of the Army Contracting Agency (ACA) with the primary mission to establish master contracts to acquire information technology products and services for the Army Enterprise.
Cross-Agency Support Services (CASS)
In 2008, BTA awarded Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for the following three Lines of Business (LoB), with the government awarding multiple contracts within each:
- Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V)
- Thought Leadership/Change Management (TL/CM)
- Support Services (SS)
Individual task orders will allow for various pricing structures (i.e., Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP), Time & Material (T&M), Labor-Hour, and combinations there-of). The IDIQ vehicle will provide the BTA with the flexibility to issue task orders for specific requirements while providing a competitive environment throughout the contract performance.
Please click here for information on the CASS prime contractors
Please click the links below for the BTA presentations from the CASS Industry Day on January 26, 2009
Acquisition & Transformation: Acting Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive Keith E. Seaman
Transformation Priorities & Requirements - Financial Management: Will Stormer
DBSAE Program Executive Office - Enterprise Finance: Mats Persson
Transformation Priorities & Requirements - Human Resources Management: Julie Blanks
DBSAE Program Executive Office - Enterprise Personnel: Dave Swatloski
Transformation Priorities and Requirements - Supply Chain Management: Kimberly Pisall
DBSAE Program Executive Office - Sourcing: Dr. Ken Fielding
Enterprise Integration: Prashant Gaur
Enterprise Planning & Investment: Trish Van Belle
Warfighter Requirements: CDR Thomas Gamble
Helpful Links:
Central Contractor Registry
Federal Business Opportunities
Wide Area Workflow