[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 33142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16262]
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Notice of Meeting
SUMMARY: NASA will conduct an open forum to solicit questions, views,
and options of interested persons/firms concerning NASA's procurement
policies and practices. The purpose of the meeting is to have an open
discussion between NASA's Associate Administrator for Procurement,
industry and the public.
DATES: August 22, 1996, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Teague Auditorium, Building
2, located at the NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Road 1, Houston,
Texas.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Barbara Kirkland, NASA Johnson Space Center, Industry Assistance
Office, Code BD35, 2101 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058, (713) 483-4512,
e-mail: bkirklan@bal.jsc.nasa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Format
There will be a presentation by the Associate Administrator for
Procurement, followed by a question and answer period. Procurement
issues will be discussed including NASA policies used in the award and
administration of contracts.
Admittance
Doors will open at 1:30 p.m. Admittance will be on a first-come,
first-served basis. Reservations will NOT be accepted. Questions for
the open forum should be presented at the meeting and should not be
submitted in advance. Position papers are not being solicited.
Initiatives
In addition to the general discussion mentioned above, NASA invites
comments or questions relative to its ongoing procurement initiatives,
some of which include the following:
Cost Control. NASA is developing this initiative to increase the
emphasis on cost control with its contractors and within the Agency.
Source Selection. NASA is working to reduce the time and effort
that contractors and source selection personnel spend on a contract.
Performance-Based Contracting: NASA's newest procurement initiative
is focused on structuring an acquisition around the purpose of the work
to be performed instead of how the work is to be performed, on broad
and imprecise statements of work.
Change Order Reduction and Process Change. NASA is attempting to
improve overall change order management through the use of better
technical direction, realistic cost estimates and more effective and
timely negotiations.
MidRange Procurement Procedures: A test program for a third
category of procurements (between the simplified acquisition threshold
and $1,000,000 annually) has been implemented at all NASA centers.
Thomas S. Luedtke,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Procurement.
[FR Doc. 96-16262 Filed 6-25-96; 8:45 am]
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