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WASHINGTON - Defense Logistics Agency Energy is working to save taxpayers money by streamlining and reducing the time to award contracts.
Defense Logistics Agency Energy is working to save taxpayers money by streamlining and reducing the time to award contracts. DLA Energy efforts are part of an enterprise-wide initiative to standardize contract award procedures and reduce the time the agency spends on awarding contract.
Improving the agency’s efficiency in delivering products to its customers is a goal of DLA Director Navy Vice Adm. Mark Harnitchek. To accomplish this, Harnitchek created a DLA “Time to Award” project team with 12 representatives from various DLA organizations to look at how long it takes to award contracts and to streamline approval thresholds and process acquisition plans.
“DLA Energy’s goal is to reduce the contract process time on average to 140 days for long-term supply contracts from $150,000 to $10 million,” said DLA Energy Procurement Process Support Director George Atwood, a DLA Time to Award team member. “We are streamlining DLA organization’s buying procedures, practices, tools and performance measures so that the agency can reduce the amount of time it takes us to award a contract from start to finish.”
Previously within DLA Energy it could take up to 199 days to process a large contract up to $10 million, Atwood said.
“We need everyone to be aware that the Time to Award project team is working on ways to standardize contract award procedures and reduce the time the agency spends on awarding contracts,” Atwood said.
“For long-term contracts above $10 million we are working to reduce the average time from 241 days to 190 days. By streamlining the contracting process and removing barriers, we can make things go quicker.”
DLA Energy employees are learning new time-saving processes to reduce the time spent on awarding contracts and streamline the acquisition process agencywide.
“It has been an ongoing effort to rewrite the Defense Logistics Acquisition Directive,” Atwood said. “We’re in the process of training all our acquisition folks on the new time-saving process changes for large acquisitions developed by the Time to Award team.”
Contracting officers are encouraged to remove the majority of “non-value added” pre-award reviews for contracts under $10 million to save time and streamline documentation. Contracts more than the $10 million ceiling are approved at the next level up.
“Our goal is workforce buy in,” DLA Energy Executive Adviser Kathryn Fantasia said. “We want to empower our contracting officers to use these streamlined procedures where it makes sense. … By improving our processes, we are more efficient in our support to our customer, the warfighter.”
| Date Taken: | 01.02.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 01.09.2014 11:29 |
| Story ID: | 118957 |
| Location: | DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
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