SABER Rattling
Competing for Recompetes
Project Manage My Plan
TIVOD or Not TIVOD
NGPO for the Holidays
100

Replaces the Expected Family Contribution (EFC).

What is the Student Aid Index (SAI)?

100

The 6-month extension of the Summit Team's task order ends in this month.

What is March 2024?

100

The number of Next Gen projects, including Modernization and Contract Recompete projects.

What is eight?

100

The current Title IV Origination and Disbursement (TIVOD) vendor.

Who is Accenture Federal Services?

100

The newest area of support within NGPO for the Summit Team.

What is the DCC Recompete?

200

The FAFSA form must be available in this many languages other than English.

What is 11 languages?

200

As implementation of this initiative winds down, its systems will likely be transferred to SEAD or other offices. 

What is SABER?

200

A single, formal, dynamic document that outlines how the program is to be managed, executed, and controlled.

What is the Program Management Plan (PMP)?

200

The TIVOD acquisition under review by the contracting office changed from a modernization project to this.

What is a recompete of the existing contract?

200

The Director of NGPO.

Who is Christian Odom?

300

FSA has over this many partners (e.g., schools, state agencies).  

What is over 6,000?

300

The Summit Team will be documenting these to help FSA customers address issues and challenges related to the SABER launch and NGPO modernization. 

What are lessons learned?

300

This typical replaces project schedules within agile projects.

What is a project roadmap? 

300

The four elements/systems within the TIVOD contract.

What are Customer Service, COD, NSLDS, & EDMAPS?

300

The number of Summit and GH staff billing to NGPO full-time.

What is 3 staff?

400

These FSA products contain processed student information reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) form and are sent electronically to institutions.

What is the Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR)?

400

The name of the Summit Team's Contracting Officer Representative.

Who is Diona Young?

400

The field of project management first arose in this industry. 

What is the construction industry? 

400

The difference between a Statement of Work (SOW) and a Performance Work Statement (PWS).

What is a SOW instructs a vendor on what to do and how to do it while a PWS instructs a vendor on what to do but allows the vendor the flexibility to determine how best to do it?

400

The 3 areas within NGPO being supported by Summit and GH staff full-time.

What are Risk/Audit, TIVOD, and DCC Recompete?

500

The ability to send Institutional Student Information Records (ISIRs) electronically for the 2024/2025 FAFSA is likely delayed until this time. 

What is January or February 2024?

500

The name of the Summit Team's task order. 

What is NextGen Program Management Support Services (MSS)?

500

The 11 sections that Summit team members are working to update in the NGPO PMP.

What is 1) Program Governance, 2) Performance Management & Reporting, 3) Budget & Cost & CPIC Management, 4) Staffing Management, 5) Stakeholder & Communication Management, 6) Scope & Change Management, 7) Risk Management, 8) Schedule Management, 9) Knowledge Management, 10) Quality & Vendor/Contract Management, and 11) Architecture & Data Strategy.

500

The definition of a Statement of Objectives (SOO).

What is a statement of the government's goals and objectives which requires a vendor to determine what work needs to get done and how best to do it to accomplish those goals and objectives?

500

The three areas within NGPO supported by Summit and GH staff but billed to SABER.

What are DCC, DCC Content, and PDG?