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ACQUISITION ALERT

 

NEXT WEEK April 13 - 16 in Chicago: 

2015 SAME Energy Forum and Small Business Industry Days

 

 

A unique opportunity for Wisconsin businesses

 

Partial list of confirmed participants and sponsors:

AECOM - Black& Veatch - Blinderman

Argonne National Laboratory

Assistant Secretary for the Army Installations, Energy and Environment

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment and Energy

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy

Environmental Protection Agency

General Services Administration

HNTB - Flour - Stantec - Cardno - Michels - Mead & Hunt

Stanley Consultants - Hanson - Siemens - Graef

US Army Corps of Engineers - various districts

 


UPCOMING EVENTS
4/16/15
For Manufacturers: Becoming a Supplier to the Military
Appleton
4/16/15
State/Tribal Federal Business Development Opportunities
Lac Du Flambeau
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4/22/15
Acquisition Hour: Setting Up Your Purchasing System
Webinar
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  4/23/15
Preparing for the Upcoming Construction Season - 2 events in 1 day!
Appleton

VETS 100A changes to VETS 4212 for 2015

Department of Labor (DOL) announced that the Federal Contractor Veterans' Employment Report VETS-100A has been replaced with a new, simplified report, Federal Contractor Veterans' Employment Report VETS-4212 for 2015. Contractors and subcontractors will use the VETS 4212 for the 2015 annual report. The reporting requirement and filing period remains the same for the new report and applies to contracts and subcontracts for personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction) of $100,000 or more.

 

Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) currently require contracting officers to verify filing of the DOL report for all contract awards except for contracts for commercial items or contracts that do not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. FAR Part 22.13 - Equal Opportunity for Veterans should be updated in the near future to reflect DOL changes.

 

For additional information on this change visit http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/vets/VETS20141802.htm  for the press release on the final rule or http://www.dol.gov/vets/vets-100.html  for the VETS 100/100A Federal Contractor Reporting website.  

 
Flurry of Contracts Spark US Navy Shipbuilding

WASHINGTON - The past few days have been good for a number of the US Navy's shipbuilders. The service issued building contracts for two new destroyers, three littoral combat ships (LCS) and two new landing craft. Long-lead funding was issued for another LCS, and even the Coast Guard got in on the action, ordering another large National Security Cutter. A destroyer was launched, a new amphibious ship christened, and a high-speed catamaran vessel successfully completed sea trials.

 

Down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer John Finn (DDG 113) was launched on March 28. The ship is the first of the DDG 51 restarts, the result of a 2008 Navy decision to cap production of DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers at three ships and return to building Burkes. Two yards build DDG 51s - Ingalls, and the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works yard in Bath, Maine. Before 2008, the Navy's plan was to stop buying Burkes after the Michael Murphy (DDG 112), delivered in 2012. The John Finn will be christened May 2, and is expected to be delivered in 2016.

 

Ingalls also is building the Ralph Johnson (DDG 114), Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) and Delbert D. Black (DDG 119), and the current block buy includes DDGs 121, 123 and 125. Bath is at work on the Ralph Peralta (DDG 115), Thomas Hudner (DDG 116), Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) and the yet-to-be-named DDG 120. The DDG block buy for Bath also includes DDGs 122, 124 and 126.

 

 
Incentives for DOD prime to subcontract to Native Owned Business

 

The Indian Incentive Program (IIP) provides a 5% rebate back to the prime contractor on the total amount subcontracted to an Indian-Owned Economic Enterprise or Indian Organization, Alaska Native Corporations and Native Hawaiian Small Business Concerns, in accordance with DFARS Clause 252.226-7001.

 

$15 million are available for incentive payments on a given fiscal year. If the $15 million of appropriated IIP funds is expended before end of the fiscal year, all complete and eligible IIP requests submitted on time will be rolled over to the next fiscal year.

 

Additional information can be found at:

http://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sb/programs/iip/index.shtml 

 
Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry

The Summary of Estimated Future Buys for Fiscal Years 2015 & 2016 is available online at

Doing Business with the Government or Prime Contractor in Six Steps

Whether you sell products or services; whether you goal is to sell into the public sector or the private sector, the following are elements that apply.

  • Register
  • Certify
  • Identify Resources
  • Get Connected - Stay Connected
  • Develop a Capability Statement
  • Utilize a Go/No-Go Framework
 
 
Upcoming Events that Can't be Missed

On April 29th,  join the NCMA, NDIA and WPI for "Cost and Pricing for Department of Defense Contractors and Subcontractors" at the Country Springs Hotel, Pewaukee.  

 

The VA, WDVA and WPI present the "3rd Annual U.S. Department of Veterans Business Conference" on May 12th at Traffic and Parking Control, Co (TAPCO). This conference will focus on procurement procedures and business opportunities with the VISN 12 area consisting of Chicago, Milwaukee, Tomah and Iron Mountain, MI.