ACEC Government Advocacy
ACEC Government Advocacy: Committees: Federal Agencies and Procurement Advocacy

Professional Staff Contact: Mark Steiner, PE

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Latest News
The Federal Agencies & Procurement Advocacy Committee continues to change and advance. New subcommittee leadership is in place (with Co-Chairs for each) and acting to achieve goals. Active cooperation with other ACEC committees, coalitions, and outside associations continues to grow. New initiatives and growth areas have identified topical working groups in the areas of:
  • Sustainability of Workers [Construction and Operations]
  • Small Business Size Standards
  • DC Representatives
  • Market Forecast
  • Levee Liability
  • Levee Safety Program Review Team
  • Security Clearances
  • Legislative/Regulatory Response "Hot" Team
New individual issues (such as, fair payment for losing offeror's intellectual property used by agencies on design-build efforts; enhancing the designer's role in design-build process application; fair and professional relationships between prime and subcontractors; exploring changing subcontracting goals to percent of prime contract versus percent of subcontracting; securing roles for engineers in setting national policies for dealing with key issues such as environment, energy, security, sustainability, and economy; enhancing infrastructure spending as economic stimulus; and liability protections for reuse of electronic products by others) are being added to the continuing issues (e.g. defending QBS; monitoring legislation and regulations that hinder the business of engineering; challenging government competition with the private sector; providing access to opportunities for work; monitoring GSA Schedule misuse; and simplifying security and facility clearance processing).

The Committee will soon be setting a date and agenda for our summer meeting in early July and is already gathering speakers for federal market sessions at our Annual Convention, April 25-28, 2010.

ACEC Tells Obama Administration: "Don’t Restrict Contracting Options"
ACEC/New York's Jay Simson Promotes Economic Rationale for Outsourcing in ENR

Latest News Archive

Key Legislative Priorities

Resources & Materials
USACE Civil Works Project Lists
        Project Location Map
Stimulus Funding And Tax Credit Bonds For School Construction
Presentation to American Society of Foundation Engineers on April 17, 2009
National Committee on Levee Safety Draft Report to Congress
National Committee on Levee Safety Presentation to Congress on January 15, 2009
Testimony of Leslie F. Harder, Jr., Senior Water Resources Technical Advisor, HDR, before House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment on May 19, 2009
ACEC Position Paper on Levee Certification and Design
White Paper – BIM Implementation by Federal Agencies
White Paper – Use of Standard Designs for U.S. Army Facilities
Final ARCHITECT-ENGINEER CONTRACTING Manuel for USACE
NOTABLE CHANGES IN OCT 2006 EDITION OF EP 715-1-7
COMPARED TO 31 JUL 2002 EDITION


ACEC Annual Convention Federal Agencies Presentations (April 26-29, 2009) FAIR Act
Status of FY’08 Appropriations Bills
ACEC State Legislative Resource Center
QBS Resources Center
Standard Form 330
Levee Policy Forum

Partnering Agreements
USACE  (PDF format)
NAVFAC  (PDF format)
GSA

Upcoming Meetings & Seminars
Summer FAPA Committee Meeting - July 14 & 15, 2009. Details forthcoming.
Fall Conference - October 7-10, 2009
La Quinta Golf Resort, Palm Springs, CA

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