1. Contract and Project Management: Are They One in the Same? Shelly L. Myers, PMP Deputy Chief Information Officer National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

2. Contract Management Versus Project Management Creative Tension… Project Management – To ensure that customer requirements are met Contract Management – To ensure the contracts are legally executed

3. Contract Management Versus Project Management When we come together: To ensure that programs and projects are executed within cost, schedule, and established performance parameters…

4. Let’s Look at a Little History Project Management: “In-House” capability Close knit Government teams “Hero” culture Contract Management: Ordered parts and pieces Managed service contracts

5. Today The Federal Government has been directed to outsource most of our business to the private sector Therefore large-scale “outsourcing” has become the norm almost overnight! Resulting in downsized Federal staffs and requiring new competencies

6. Good News/Bad News Now we have a way to ensure program/project performance…. However, We don’t have the skills collectively to ensure success in this new paradigm

7. OMB to the Rescue OFPP Policy Letter 05-01 Dated April 2005 “The new policy broadens the definition of the acquisition workforce by including acquisition functions such as program management…” “This policy will allow civilian agencies to strengthen their whole acquisition workforce through training and career development, rather than focusing just on traditional contracting functions. By doing so, we will be able to create better partnerships between program managers and contracting officers to improve how we acquire more than $300B worth of goods and services each year.”

8. Result Contract and Project Managers together will become the “Acquisition Workforce” We will work together to ensure that contractor performance can be documented and measured and that customer requirements can be traced Ensure that contract deliverables are sound

9. Policy Letter 05-01 Mandates Chief Acquisition Officers (CAO) to develop an acquisition career management program (training, funding, etc) FAI shall develop certification programs that shall be accepted by all civil agencies for both the Contracting Series and Program/ Project Managers CAO’s shall identify Program/Project managers who will be subject to these requirements

10. Policy Letter 05-01 Defines Acquisition competencies as: Traditional contracting functions Measurement of contract performance Technical and management direction Directs FAI to develop core competencies for program/project managers

11. FAI Core Competencies for Program/Project Managers Project Planning Project Execution and Management Risk Management Personnel Management Cost and Schedule Control Leadership and Communications Skills Technical Competence

12. OMB Policy Letter 05-01 “…adhere to ethical contracting practices, apply sound business judgment, and otherwise engage in responsible stewardship of the taxpayers’ dollars.”

13. Summary Most of the work of the Federal Government today is done through outsourcing… Which requires a balanced, well-trained, and well-funded Acquisition workforce… With like goals but different skills…

14. Remember the need for: Creative Tension