Action Plan: Engineering and Design Services

Functional Area : Engineering and Design Services

Executive Sponsor
Bill McDonald, Regional Director Pacific Northwest

Reclamation must determine and achieve the appropriate level of core capabilities needed to fulfill its mission responsibilities and provide optimum value to its customers. Reclamation will ensure an appropriate and efficient level of staff is maintained to meet identified current and future workload demands.

Concept Paper

Action Item No.	Action Item	Time Frame	Team Leader	Results
9	Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of historical and near-term workload in this area, including all design, estimating, and construction management work from the TSC, regions, and area offices. More	3/2006 - 7/2006	Jamie Macartney	Available
10	Evaluate the identified workload in terms of its commercial, commercial core, and/or inherently governmental nature, in accordance with the definitions in OMB Circular A-76. This will include the critical determination of the sustainable core capability needed to achieve Reclamation’s mission-critical work. More	8/2006 - 11/2006	Gayle Shanahan	Available
11	Analyze the unit to unit costs of in-house performance of the commercial workload vs. outsourcing. More	8/2006 - 11/2006	Jamie Macartney	Available
12	Based on the results of the foregoing, complete a right-sizing process with regard to design, estimating, and construction management staff within the agency, including determination of the appropriate location and distribution of technical capability. A transition plan will then be developed and implemented to achieve the determined size, type, and location of staff resources. More	11/2006 - 7/2007	Jamie Macartney Perry Hensley	Available
13	Analyze the potential benefits and requirements/tradeoffs associated with alternative funding of the engineering and design staff. This would include an analysis of whether the costs of maintaining core capabilities within the TSC should appropriately be funded by direct appropriations, by water and power customers, or by some combination of the two. More	6/2007 - 8/2007	Larry Walkoviak
14	Implement design engineering estimate oversight functions associated with the DEC/DSO position; identify and conduct pilot reviews of key project feature construction estimates during FY 2006. More	3/2006 - 6/2006	Perry Hensley	Available
15	Establish agency policies and procedures for the oversight of design and construction estimates. More	6/2006 - 10/2006	Perry Hensley	Available
16	Analyze Reclamation’s engineering standards; both the appropriateness of them and how they are applied internally and externally. More	7/2006 - 12/2006	Jerry Kelso	Available

Last Updated: March 21, 2008