NCMA Denver would like to thank our Corporate Sponsors:

 

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2007-2008 Board of Directors

President Emeritus/Graalman Chair
Sandy Lintz

303-236-9560

Denver Chapter President
Steve Peck

720-286-2552

President-Elect

Paul Fisher

303-381-8000

Secretary and Registrar

Stacey Gustus

303-634-4428

Treasurer

Charles Teuber

303-707-8545

Newsletter Chair

Robert Orwig

303-676-3516

Membership Chair

Catherine Rivera

303-533-4140

Education Chair

Blake Couture

303-939-7804

Employment Chair

Susan Holland

303-277-1444

Facilities Chair

Nicole Peterson Haines

303-969-2473

Symposium Chair

Celia Lopez

303-676-3595

Scholarship Chair

Cory Sanchez

719-579-9474

Nominations Chair

Mike Sanford

303-445-2442

Program Chair & Volunteer Coordinator

Brenda Lopez

303-391-8567

Corporate Sponsor Chait

Dolly Fernandez

303-969-2114

Awards/Fellows Chair

Larry Anderson

303-391-8567

Webmaster

Jenna Masiello

303-937-6979

Publicity/Photographer/Historian Chair

Gayle Niles

303-445-2403

2007-2008 Board of Advisors

Sue Bienulis

CH2M Hill

Leigh Ann Bunetta

GSA

Ken Degenhart

Kaiser-Hill Company, LLC

Brad Duchein

Northrop Grumman Corp.

John Godzac

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Tom Hohman

Lockheed Martin Corp.(Retired)

Bill Ingram
Lockheed Martin Corp.

Thomas A. Lemmer
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

C. Richard Pennington
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

Karla Smiley

Bureau of Reclamation

 

Missed 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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Monthly Meetings

 

May Meeting

 

As of Newsletter deadline; the May meeting details have not been finalized.  Stacey Gustus will send out an e-mail to the chapter membership with the details.

 

Nominations for President Elect, Secretary and Treasurer can be made at the May Chapter meeting.  Paul Fisher, our President-Elect this Year, will be the new President.

 

 Please contact Mike Sanford, nominations chair, if you have any questions. Please check the chapter website, www.ncmadenver.org, for information on the available positions and inherent duties.

 

 msanford@do.usbr.gov, 303-445-2442

 

 

 

APRIL Meeting

 

The April Lunch meeting was held at the Blue Bonnet Café and featured Greg Lopez, Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (RMMSDC) President/CEO who shared his mission to drive the growth of minority business enterprises through partnerships with corporations, government and others. 

 

Future meeting are tentatively scheduled as follows:

June 12 (monthly meeting)

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Fellows and Awards

 

The due date for the final award for this Chapter year are upon us as follows:

 

 

First Week of June

NCMA/ICAF

Recognition of outstanding research in the contracting/acquisition area

 

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From the Scholarship Chair

May, 2008

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.

 

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From the Education Chair

May, 2008

 

The Denver Chapter sponsors, free of charge, Host Facilities for the various Audio Seminars.  The site host information will be sent via e-mail prior to each seminar.  It is the member’s responsibility to contact the designated Point of Contact in advance so that adequate materials, certificate of attendance, security badges and facility entrance paperwork (if applicable) can be prepared for the seminar.  To attend a specific audio seminar, please register with Stacey Gustus at sgustus@mckennalong.com or 303-634-4428.  Please note the topic, dates and locations for the upcoming seminars.

 

What are the topics and dates?

MAY 2008

May 15:

Contract Law Basics (“The Cats and Dogs Session”)*


May 22:

Pricing Basics (Work Design and Analysis)*


JUNE 2008

June 12:

FAR Overview (Parts 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23)*


June 19:

Contract Administration Basics (Contract Closeout)*




All audio seminars will be held at:

 

*Ball Aerospace (Broomfield and Boulder) and United Launch

Alliance

 

Any additional sites will be identified via e-mail notification.

 

 

*Please note that we have a change in the location of the NCMA Audio Conferences. 

 

Identified host locations are as follows:

 

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Range St. Building RA-2, Boulder, CO, 80301

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., 10 Longs Peak Drive, Broomfield, CO, 80021

United Launch Alliance, LLC, 9100 East Mineral Circle, Centennial, CO  80112

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, 1875 Lawrence Street, Suite 200, Denver, CO, 80202

National Park Services, 12795 West Alameda Parkway, Room 250/251, Lakewood, CO  80225

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Blake Couture at dcouture@ball.com or 303-939-7804. 

 

If your firm would be interested in being a Host Facility for an of the upcoming seminars, please contact either Blake Couture or Stacey Gustus. 

 

Your Denver NCMA Chapter reimburses the Host Facility for the expense of the seminar in exchange for providing venues for our membership to gather, hear and interact with one another members over a seminar topic.

 

 

Certification 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. 

 

Please see the local Denver NCMA webpage – Education Section for information related to Certifications.

 

Questions of the Month

1.      The doctrine applicable only to losses which the plaintiff could have avoided or gains the plaintiff could have received given that plaintiff exercised reasonable effort without undue risk or undue humiliation is the doctrine of

A.    reservation of rights

B.     advantageous contracts

C.     avoidable consequences

D.    foreseeability

2.      The legal concept that exists between the employer or business owner and the employee working on that employer's behalf is one of

A.    actual authority

B.     quid pro quo

C.     agency

D.    approval

3.      The concept of consideration in contract law requires that

A.    a benefit flows to both the offeror and the offeree

B.     only the offeree receives a benefit

C.     only the offeror receives a benefit

D.    no benefit can flow to either party

4.      If a Government inspector misunderstood the contract and required a contractor to alter its method of performance, the contractor may be able to recover under the

A.    mutual mistake doctrine

B.     bone fide needs doctrine

C.     constructive change doctrine

D.    anticipatory repudiation doctrine

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Thank you Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

 

As previously announced in the April Newsletter; while Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. notified the Chapter that they are not able to be a corporate sponsor this year, Ball (Through John Godzac) has made us a wonderful offer.  Ball is willing to provide the NCMA Denver Chapter with a grant of up to $2,000 for our use in 2008 for a specific purpose. We need to determine what that purpose is so that I can notify John and see if he will approve it.

 

Assistance with a training seminar or meeting, e.g., pay for a high-level national speaker to come to Denver and speak to our membership has been initially been talked about; however, all ideas are on the table, so please think about it.

 

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From the Membership Chair