Although Joanne Woytek, NASA program manager for the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) IV government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC), has been involved with the program for more than 18 years, she still conducts approximately 75 percent of its live training classes.
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Officials with NASA’s SEWP IV program are testing and introducing new features to help federal agencies obtain the products and solutions they need through the SEWP IV contract.
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When NASA officials created the SEWP IV government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) four years ago, they were not necessarily thinking about cloud computing, but they included in the contract’s scope of work technologies that today are essential to the cloud, such as virtual computing and virtual storage.
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Just one year ago, it appeared that the Office of Management and Budget might try to reduce the number of government-wide acquisition contracts. Concerned about the proliferating number of federal contract vehicles, OMB officials were reviewing policies for creating and managing GWACs and multi-agency contracts (MACs).
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The relationship between government acquisition officials and contractors can be clouded by mutual suspicion and, when problems arise, thinly veiled hostility. The SEWP IV program avoids this problem by providing multiple avenues for communication between program officials and contractors, recognizing that the two groups must work together to help government customers.
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People often ask why nearly all of the contract holders for NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV have excellent ratings on the program performance system, said SEWP IV Program Manager Joanne Woytek.
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The portion of sales going to small businesses in the SEWP IV reached 42 percent last year, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year, according to SEWP IV officials.
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Encouraged by the surprising success of the Federal IT Acquisition Summit held in April, officials with NASA’s SEWP IV are already making plans for an even more ambitious seminar next year.
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