PROCUREMENT AT ICE
This system functions as a contract storage system throughout the lifecycle of a contract. In addition to contract file storage, this system supports workflow, document management, and records management
What is ECFS?
Name of the person who is responsible for the management direction of the acquisition system of DHS, including implementation of the unique acquisition policies, regulations, and standards of the agency. He oversees the work of ten Heads of Contracting Activity and is titled the DHS “Chief Procurement Officer.”
Who is Paul Courtney?
This type of software development is an iterative and incremental approach that emphasizes the importance of delivering a working product quickly and frequently. It involves close collaboration between the development team and the customer.
What is agile?
He delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This is the FAR part that deals with the acquisition of information technology.
What is FAR part 39?
This is the dollar amount of the simplified acquisition threshold.
What is $250,000?
The purpose of these informal sessions, required at or above $5M, is to discuss the policies and exchange acquisition strategy ideas surrounding the procurement. These are held prior to the AP formulation.
What is a skull session?
This is the ICE program that provides free and confidential services designed to help employees, managers, and organizations meet life challenges and remain healthy, engaged, and productive.
What is the Employee Assistance Program?
The ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.
What is artificial intelligence?
In 1863 this U.S. president proclaimed the last Thursday in November to be a National Day of Thanksgiving?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
For non-manufacturing NAICS codes, this is the competitive threshold below which an acquisition offered to the SBA under the 8(a) program may be sole-sourced.
What is $4.5M?
This is a DHS framework aimed at experimenting with innovative acquisition techniques across the DHS enterprise. It provides a safe space to test new ideas, share lessons learned, and promote best practices.
What is the Procurement Innovation Lab?
This OCIO branch provides procurement planning, contracting officer’s representative, and other acquisition management support
What is the Acquisition Management Branch (AMB)?
There are a few exceptions to the prohibition on gifts from outside sources. These exceptions allow an employee to accept: a gift valued at this dollar amount or less, provided that the total value of gifts from the same person or organization is not more than $50 in a calendar year.
What is $20?
Also known as software robotics, this uses automation technologies to mimic back-office tasks of human workers, such as extracting data, filling in forms, moving files, et cetera. It combines APIs and user interface (UI) interactions to integrate and perform repetitive tasks.
What is robotic process automation?
The German classical pianist and admired composer became increasingly deaf before his death in 1827.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This contract type provides for acquiring supplies or services on the basis of direct labor hours at specified fixed hourly rates that include wages, overhead, general and administrative expenses, and profit; and actual cost for materials.
What is time and materials?
Also known as ICAM Appendix D, this document identifies procurement document review thresholds and reviewers.
What is the OAQ Review and Approval Matrix?
The DHS portal used for businesses to view anticipated contract actions over $250,000. The goal is for this forecast to assist in doing business with DHS.
What is the Acquisition Planning Forecast System (APFS)?
This 2002 Act was introduced in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and created an executive department combining numerous federal agencies with a mission to prevent terrorist attacks and to unify homeland security efforts.
What is the Homeland Security Act?
This is the acronym for U.S. legislation that puts federal agency CIOs in control of IT investments. The CIO (Chief Information Officer) and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) need to give documented approval of an IT purchase to remain compliant with this act.
What is FITARA?
American poet & civil rights activist, born Marguerite Annie Johnson in 1928 is known for authoring “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and the quote, “When people show you who they are, believe them.”
Who is Maya Angelou?
This means a function that is so intimately related to the public interest as to mandate performance by Government employees. This includes activities that require either the exercise of discretion in applying Government authority, or the making of value judgments in making decisions for the Government.
What is an inherently governmental function?
This checklist asks whether the contractor will have access to controlled unclassified information and DHS information systems, and if so, requires certain clauses by included. It’s also known as the checklist for sensitive information and is required for all acquisitions.
What is Appendix G?
Congress utilizes these to ensure that agencies are accurately spending the funding Congress appropriates to them. The DHS Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) holds the OAQ Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA) personally accountable for their accuracy. When in doubt, send this out.
What is a Congressional Notification?
With over 50,000 members this DHS agency has a multi-mission, interoperable fleet of 259 Cutters, 200 fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, and over 1,600 boats. This only military organization within DHS and defends our maritime borders.
What is the US Coast Guard?
This is a government-wide program that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the federal government by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies and federal agencies.
What is FedRamp?
Indicted on 22 counts of federal income-tax evasion, charged with conspiracy to violate Prohibition laws, this American Mobster served time in Jail in Chicago and at a penitentiary in Atlanta before eventually being imprisoned at Alcatraz.
Who is Al Capone?
This proposal analysis technique is used to evaluate the reasonableness of individual cost elements when certified cost or pricing data are required.
What is cost analysis?
One of these is required when a compelling reason exists not to use an available Department-wide strategic sourcing contract vehicle, and the procurement does not meet one of the exceptions.
What is a waiver?