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June 2009 |
NCMA
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2008-2009 Board of Directors
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President Emeritus/Graalman Chair 720-286-2552 |
Denver Chapter President 303-381-8000 |
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President-Elect 303-939-7804 |
Secretary and Registrar 303-634-4428 |
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Treasurer 303-672-5281,
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Newsletter Chair 303-676-3516 |
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Membership Chair 303-391-8567 |
Education Chair 303-939-7804 |
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Employment Chair 303-277-1444 |
Facilities Chair 303-969-2473 |
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Symposium Chair 303-445-2435 |
Scholarship Chair 719-579-9474 |
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Nominations Chair 303-445-2427 |
Program Chair & Volunteer Coordinator 303-236-7438 |
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Corporate Sponsor Chair 303-707-8545 |
Awards/Fellows Chair Open 303-391-8567 |
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Leadership Development Chair 303-969-2114 |
Publicity/Photographer/Historian Chair 303-445-2403 |
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Webmaster 303-937-6979 |
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2008-2009
Board of Advisors
Sue Bienulis
CH2M Hill
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Leigh Ann
Bunetta GSA |
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Ken
Degenhart Kaiser-Hill
Company, LLC |
Brad
Duchein Northrop
Grumman Corp. |
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John Godzac Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp. |
Tom Hohman Lockheed
Martin Corp.(Retired) |
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Karla
Smiley Bureau of
Reclamation |
Thomas A.
Lemmer |
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C. Richard
Pennington |
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connections? If you are not receiving email notifications
relating to Denver Chapter events and newsletter postings, please email Stacey
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From the President |
Monthly Meetings |
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Golf Tournament |
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From the President
First, I would like to thank all of my volunteer Board
Members for their support through a quite mentally challenging and exciting
year for both our Chapter and our Country.
I would like to thank those who knew the difference between involvement
and empowerment and took the imitative to get things done even when it may have
looked like they were out on their own.
They weren't.
I would also like to extend my best wishes for those
in our Chapter seeking employment and remind them to use their Chapter and your
own networking prowess. There is no
better way than to re-engage. We are
here to help.
I welcome Mr. D. Blake Couture as the new Denver
Chapter President. If you have not met
him, I urge you to get to do that and get to know him. He is a wealth of knowledge and noted contracting
professional. With his leadership, I'm
certain our Chapter will continue to thrive.
Finally, for the Denver Chapter Members (many of whom
I know personally and/or professionally), I leave them with hope for their
continued success.
Paul R. Fisher
NCMA, Denver Chapter President
Monthly Meetings
The
Please
come join NCMA for breakfast on Wednesday, June 10th, and hear about the use of
the GSA stimulus funds for improving energy efficiency of Federal
Buildings. Our dynamic speaker, Mike
Lowell, Director of the Office of Property Management, will give a national
overview of the GSA stimulus plan.
Topics of discussion will include:
(1) how GSA will be dealing with the federal building efficiency
mandates; (2) learning about the Energy Independence and Security Act, the
Energy Policy Act, and LEED Certification; (3) how GSA intends to modernize existing
buildings and construct new high performance green buildings; and (4) how to
work with GSA as a program partner.
Learn what projects and contracting opportunities exist at both a
national and Rocky Mountain Regional level.
We are embarking on one of the largest investment opportunities our
country has ever encountered. This event
will surely provide numerous strategies that can be easily implemented into
your own organization to help assure the success of this monumental feat. Please join the Denver Chapter of the NCMA in
welcoming Mike, on Wednesday, June 10th, at Braun's Bar & Grill,
Our next monthly meeting will take place in September and will welcome our new President, Blake Couture
June 17th Golf Tournament
Mark your calendar for the morning of June 17, 2009 and
gather your foursome, twosome or just grab your clubs and register! NCMA is
proud to co-host CMAA's 7th Annual Golf Tournament along with SAME. You'll be playing with others in your industry
and profession enjoying a great day of golf and networking . . . all are
welcome to register. Join us for lunch
and an awards ceremony after a morning of golf.
You'll also experience a great golf venue at Murphy Creek Golf Course in
Golfer Details:
Foursome: Includes golf cart, sleeve of balls, prizes, lunch, and awards ceremony; $550 Early Registration/$600 Standard Registration
Audio Seminars
RSVP to this email if you plan on attending any or all of the following audio seminars that are scheduled from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (location(s) listed below). If you are willing to host an audio seminar at your location and open it to outside attendance, please advise.
June 16, 2009 (at Ball-Broomfield*): Cost Reasonableness - Lessons Learned
July 21, 2009 (at Ball-Broomfield*): FCPA and ITAR
October 20, 2009 (at Ball-Broomfield*): Cost Realism
November 17, 2009 (at Ball-Broomfield*): Earned Value Management Systems
December 15, 2009 (at Ball-Broomfield*): Incentive and Award Fee
Contract Pricing - Best Practices
*Ball-Broomfield:
When you arrive at Ball for the audio seminar, go to the Ball Corporate
Headquarters building, check in with Security, ask to be signed in as a visitor
with Becky Lemoine as the Point of Contact and have a seat in the lobby. Becky will come and direct you to the
conference room. The physical address is
PLEASE SHARE THESE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES WITH OTHERS IN YOUR ORGANIZATION/COMMUNITY.
From
the Scholarship Chair
June, 2009
Scholarships
Available
The Chapter still has Scholarship money to give away! If you are interested, there are scholarship opportunities to provide funding for (i) membership dues to the NCMA Denver Chapter, (ii) continuing education for current Chapter members, and (iii) college scholarships for anyone interested in contracting as a career. If you or anyone you know is interested in a scholarship, please contact the Scholarship Chair, Corey Sanchez at 303-634-4000 or at csanchez@mckennalong.com.
From the Education Chair
June, 2009
Please note that the
If your firm would be interested in opening your site as a Host Facility for any of the upcoming seminars, please contact either Blake Couture or Stacey Gustus.
Certification and Study Groups
If there is any interest in
participating in a certification study group, please forward your interest to dcouture@ball.com. List what module you are studying for, what
is a good time for you to meet with others, your general location, do you have
the study materials, etc.
For your convenience – the
Denver Chapter has purchased all of the necessary study materials for all of
the relevant exams, which should greatly reduce your cost investment in
preparing for the exams.
The Chapter will reimburse each
member, up to a lifetime total of $500 for the cost towards study materials and
exam fees, upon successful completion of a certification.
Below is a listing of
resource materials at the disposal of the Denver Chapter Membership. Preference for checking out the material will
be given to those individuals studying for certification. If you are interested in checking out one of
the items below, please contact Blake Couture at dcouture@ball.com.
- Commercial Body of Knowledge Module*
- General Business Body of Knowledge
- Management
- Marketing
- Economics
- Accounting and Finance
- Operations Management and Quantitative Methods
- CFCM Federal Knowledge Module Study Guide*
- Contract Management Body of Knowledge*
- Guide to the CM Body of Knowledge*
- The 100 Worst Mistakes in Government Contracting
- Contract Negotiations – Skills, Tools and Best
Practices
- Desktop guide to Basic Contracting Terms
- Leadership – Building High Performance
Buying/Selling Teams
- Solicitations, Bids, Proposals and Source
Selection (Building a Winning Contract)
- Performance Based Acquisition – Pathways to
Excellence
- Contracting Management Organizational Assessment
Tools
* - currently checked out
Please see the local Denver
NCMA webpage – Education Section for information related to Certifications.
Certifications – updates and changes
Here are the new requirements
for the CFCM, CCCM and CPCM Certifications – hot off the presses.
If you have a question or
concern, drop me a line at dcouture@ball.com
or call me at 303-939-7804.
A local Denver NCMA Chapter Services
Directory
While our membership is made up of a vast number of individuals who work for various large employer’s around the state, I am looking to establish a directory of small business enterprises that are directly owned and operated by our membership that can be assembled and distributed to our membership. Are you a Sole Proprietor, an LLC or have a consulting business on the side? If there is interest in this idea, please drop me a line at dcouture@ball.com
Published Articles
Have you published an article in a local or national
magazine or publication? If so, please
let the local chapter know so that we can report it to National as a part of
our local reporting and also, the local Chapter recognizes these contributions
to the Chapter and the profession by awarding the author with $50 for a
publicized article. If you a published article, please submit the article
and your contact information to either Blake Couture at dcouture@ball.com or Stacey Gustus at sgustus@mckennalong.com
For those
in the career field who think Non-Disclosure Agreements, PIA’s, etc. are just
necessary evil paperwork to be done and filed in a drawer so that companies can
talk to one another, read on.
Lockheed
Wins Trade-Secret Case Against L-3 Communications.
The Wall Street Journal
(5/27, B3, Pasztor, subscription required) reports, "Lockheed Martin Corp.
won a $30 million jury verdict against L-3 Communications Corp. last week over
the use of Lockheed proprietary data to refurbish P-3 maritime patrol aircraft
for South Korea." The case was heard in US District Court in
Fellows
and Awards
The National awards are completed for this Chapter year.