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MAR 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 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
Gustus or call her at 303-634-4428 to be added to this private email
distribution list.
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From the Leadership Chair |
Cost and Pricing Training |
Monthly Meetings
APRIL SYMPOSIUM: An all day seminar at the Franciscan on April 14. Details will be provided in the next few weeks.
From
the Scholarship Chair
March, 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.
Fellows and
Awards
The National awards are completed for this Chapter year.
From the Education Chair
March, 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.
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 where have all the candidates gone?
I was going to write a
passionate item about Certifications, their importance, etc. However, as I just got back from the Mid Year
Leadership Conference and found out that they are going to alter the
Certification Process in May 2009. Not
much was forthcoming except that there will be one exam per Certification and
there will still be three Certifications.
If you have a question or concern, drop me a line at dcouture@ball.com or call me at
303-939-7804.
HOW
TO FIND A JOB IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
The U.S. Government's Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) apparently
maintains a listing of contract specialists (1102s) at
the GS-5 and GS-7 entry levels under its recent FAI Central Register Pilot
program.Agencies wanting to hire new employees from the list then pay OPM for
the ability to do so. OPM will pull lists by location for this fee. Candidates are generally new to the federal
government.
Information about this program and other Federal procurement positions and hiring
programs that may be useful to those either seeking employment, current Feds
looking for temporary developmental assignments, and Federal agencies seeking
qualified applicants is available at www.fai.gov.
(FAI is the Federal Acquisition Institute.) The OPM site is www.opm.gov,
and its job site is www.usajobs.opm.gov.
NCMA LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Congratulations
to Matt Gomer who was chosen as the Denver Chapters
nominee for the NCMA Contract Management Leadership Development Program (CMLDP)
for the class starting in June 2009!
COST AND
PRICING TRAINING
Join NCMA Denver Chapter for our first evening training on Thursday, April 30, 2009, featuring Tom Lemmer, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, who is nationally known for his cost and pricing experience. This cost and pricing training session will include key fundamentals and current hot topics regarding how to price your contracts, account for costs in order to maximize profits and keep audit issues to a minimum. Included in the discussion will be cost allocation issues, Truth in Negotiations Act requirements and the current DCAA audit initiatives. At a cost of $50 (member) or $65 (general/nonmember) (meal included), this is COST effective training!
Training
will be held at United Launch Alliance, LLC's facility at
Please use this link to register, https://www.123signup.com/register?id=zbcdk.
Please share this training opportunities with others in your organization/community.