If you feel like you have been seeing more and more of me over the past couple of weeks at GSA, you DO NOT need to have your eyes examined. Bill and I have been very busy taking over contract administration duties while Matt Oviatt has been focused (quite successfully!) on Business Development. It’s been exciting to see so many of you in your environment and in action.
GSA/PET/SDM Program
On May 28, 2010 the Capitol CREAG / UNISYS Team was awarded the Spatial Data Management (SDM) contract with the GSA/NCR Pricing Execution and Tools (PET) Division.
GSA/PET/SDM Program Overview:
The SDM Program is GSA’s national effort to create, update, and maintain its spatial data and associated Computer Aided Design (CAD) floor plans to accurately reflect the national federally owned inventory. SDM CAD floor plans are the basis for the assignment data and square footage information that PBS uses for tenant rent bills. The creation and maintenance of drawings supports accurate rent bills for customer agencies. The SDM program also aids in the performance and utilization of each asset while identifying the most efficient and cost-effective way to house Federal employees and manage Federal Space. The NCR SDM program surveys, measures, and validates spatial and assignment data for NCR’s buildings and maintains spatial data using AutoCAD, Map3D and eSmart, the SDM database platform.
New Team Members
On June 1, 2010 we began the on-boarding of 12 new team members. We are excited to welcome Team Lead/Program Manager, Leon Hatton, and his team of highly skilled CAD/CAFM Engineers. They are well respected at GSA.
So, if you see a professional walking down the hall with a friendly smile and a blue Capitol CREAG lanyard hanging from their neck, I encourage you to introduce yourself and welcome the SDM members to the family.
GSA Financial Management Division, shared the Good News with Capitol CREAG Team Leader, Marvin Muhammad, this week. As a result of Capitol CREAG’s efforts, GSA NCR PBS Achieves GREEN Score in November FY10 Accounts Payable. This is the First Time achieving this status since the measurement was established in November FY09.
I remember when Marvin first started working for us in 2002.
There were only six of us then, but we were all very optimistic and expecting big things for Capitol CREAG.
Marvin joined us to fill the role as Senior Accountant and helped us to keep our contracts all in a row. He was in charge of:
Receivables
Payables
Audits
Dealing with the banks
And all the roles that don’t have much to do with your title, but that you still do when you work for a small company.
Since then the company has grown by leaps and bounds and Marvin has played an important part in that.
It’s while reflecting on those fond memories that Art, Todd, and I would like to give an official congratulations on behalf of the company.
Marvin has transitioned into a new position as Team Leader of NCR Financial Analysis Support Contracts.
This opportunity will see Marvin using his strengths in leadership as he leads the Capitol CREAG team working on the Financial Analysis Support contracts. He will be responsible for:
Overall contract performance
Ensuring client satisfaction
Facilitating staff success and professional development
Collaborating with the team and the client to contribute to Capitol CREAG’s continued growth within the Region
I’m looking forward to watching Marvin continue to provide remarkable service to Capitol CREAG’s customers.
Blogs are great. They let you keep in touch and stay informed.
One of the down sides of Blogs, though, is that because many of the best ones aren’t updated every day (who has quality information to write about every day?), it’s easy to forget to check in with them on a regular basis.
One of the best solutions for keeping up to date on blogs is called an RSS reader. I wanted to share the video below to explain how an RSS reader can work to help you stay on top of the Capitol CREAG blog and your other favorite blogs.
Google Reader in Plain English
If you decide to use Google Reader to follow the Capitol CREAG blog, all you have to do to subscribe is click the button to the right of this entry that looks like this:
Feel free to post links to some of your other favorite blogs in the Comments section below.
If over the next few days you run into me and I seem much more laid back, it’s because I just got back from Parsons, KS where the people are friendly and the Main Street wins awards.
This past Tuesday, Calibre sat down with Selena, Matt, Shaun, and myself for lunch and asked us to do a building assessment for a 67,000 sq ft building just southeast of Parsons at the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant (KSAAP). The plant is closing due to BRAC.
After getting a notice to move forward on Wednesday, Shaun and I took the 5:30 AM flight out of BWI and made it to Parsons around noon on Thursday.
What we found in Parsons was all kinds of very helpful information from:
Bob Wood (the commercial broker of choice for the county)
The Army Corps of Engineers, and
The Army personnel still on-site at the KSAAP.
This morning Shaun and I sit down to begin writing our report. With all the helpful information from the people mentioned above, the 200 page report by the LRPA, the 700 page environmental report from the Army Corps, and a few other sources, I have to admit I’m really looking forward to giving our assessment for the building’s Highest and Best Use.
