Thought Leadership MAPPS A/E Forum Briefing Summer Meeting 2016 With Excerpts from: PSMJ’s A/E/C Market Outlook: How do the A/E/C Markets Look in 2016 and Beyond?

The A/E’s View of their Business

IDIQ Contracts – Do not achieve contract capacity ceilings, often unfunded Government Competition: Work to be performed Recruitment and hiring of A/E’s staff to government payroll to do the same work as a government employee, insourcing work. Government’s Commoditization of A/E staff and services: Government's staff augmentation with body shop, low bid workforce Contract transitioning form A/E to IT-based body shops and disadvantaged businesses with no engineering or geospatial expertise forcing the transition of A/E personnel to other non-A/E companies Reduced scoping of A/E services to data collection (e.g., raw data) as the government produces final products in-house. Interagency workshare agreements instead of contracting for services The MAPPS A/E Forum’s View of their Business

QBS Avoidance by Contracting Offices Task orders with IT-based word choices excluding A/E “key words” to describe work and products without directly referencing A/E-type services OASIS IDIQ “DHS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the General Services Administration (GSA) to use One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) and OASIS Small Business (OASIS SB) to procure professional services.” GSA Alliant Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) “Alliant, GSA’s premier enterprise GWAC, provides flexible access to customized IT solutions from a large, diverse pool of industry partners. Alliant allows for long- term planning of large-scale program requirements.” The MAPPS A/E Forum’s View of their Business

Pursue a national structures inventory and database to fulfill overall parcel, address and structure needs for FEMA and other agencies. Pursue an approach to an agency’s SOQ criteria for IDIQs excluding esoteric and incidental services that are seldom if ever ordered through the contract(s). Other Thought Areas: Creating the MAPPS ROI for A/E Firms Developing and Managing new sUAS operations in an A/E Firm Coping with Corporate-wide IT and SaaS applications Cloud Computing Impacts on geospatial operations A/E recruitment and retention of A/E Firms Best Practices for MAPPS Member firms for acquiring geospatial services and products from our partner subconsultants The MAPPS A/E Forum’s View of their Business