Creating a new
Defense Business System (DBS)
KEY STATS
• Modernized legacy systems
• Upgraded from Oracle10g-> 11g->12c; Windows 2003-> 2008 -> 2012; Linux 4->5->6
• Deployed 32 releases averaging 22.5 days/ release with no rollbacks
• Implemented EDI and XML based interfaces to Navy ERP, WAWF, and Electronic Document Access Systems
• Implemented CAC/PKI and ECA based authentication
• Obtained two consecutive ATO and supported successful FISCAM audit
• Implemented Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards
SIZE & SCOPE
• 5 Million+ Documents
• 200+ DocumentTypes
• 75,000+ InvoicesPerYear
• 1,000+ Performers
The U.S. government awards billions of dollars in contracts and grants each year. This is big business. In order to provide the critical business intelligence and situational awareness needed to maximize efficiencies, the traditional silo approach will not work. An integrated contract/grant management system is required.
Karthik Consulting, LLC (KC) designed, developed and currently manages a best-in-class contract/grant (Award) management system that integrates processes and data from multiple systems to create a complete picture for each functional area involved in contract and grant administration. The system that KC developed for the US Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR), Contract Administration Management Information System (CAMIS), provides 360 degree visibility into all aspects of the management ecosystem in near real time, including management of contracts and grants, documents, financials, performers, and payments while providing meaningful reports and metrics.
CAMIS is designated as an official Defense Business System (DBS). As such, it complies with the Department of Defense (DOD) Information Technology (IT) and Information Assurance (IA) requirements and has the Authority-to-Operate (ATO) on the DOD network. The three critical elements of a post award contract and grant management system are: Award Management, Financial Management and Document Management. The sheer size and impressive functionality of the KC contract/grant management approach, as deployed for ONR, is outlined below:
Award Management: This module maintains the contract and grant, including its change history, period of performance, source of funding, and type of award. It provides a closeout checklist and tracks the Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL).
Financial Management: This module tracks obligations and expenditures at the Contract Line item (CLIN), Sub-Line item (SLIN), and Accounting Classification Reference Number (ACRN) level. It tracks over and under burn and expenditure rates. Additionally, it tracks No Funds Extension (NFE) and dormant obligation issues. It has an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) based interface with the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for tracking financial transactions.
Document Management: This module tracks over 200+ types of acquisition documents with custom workflows. Additionally it automatically tags each document with metadata and interfaces with the DOD’s official acquisition document repository, Electronic Document Access. Over 5 million documents are maintained in the OpenText LiveLink based document management system.
KC provides an integrated approach that lets you understand all aspects of the contract / grant ecosystem. Whether you are from the program office, contractsor finance department, our system can help you quickly answer these types of questions at the agency / department level or for any contract or grant:
• What is the period of performance?
• What are the deliverables?
• When will it run out of funds?
• What funding and/or contract actions do I have to take to realign the money?
• How many invoices are pending approval?
• What is the average time for my agency to approve an invoice?
• What is the funding source?
• What is the color of money used?
• What is the funding by fiscal year?
• Which contractor grant has expenditure problems?
• What is the change history?
• What is my acquisition staff workload?
• What is my portfolio distribution (6.1, 6.2, 6.3, FNC, SBIR, STTR, URI, MURI, ...)?
• How much government property was purchased?
Karthik Consulting’s approach provides the data and intelligence necessary to make smart business decisions ensuring Performers are executing according to contractual agreements, maximizing budget utilization and ensuring that business operations are running smoothly.
PERFORMER MANAGEMENT
REPORTING METRICS
PAYMENT MANAGEMENT
Take a look at what KC is doing to contribute to global cyber security, agile software development and cloud services.
ABOUT US
Our Cyber Security, Software Development and Program Management focus areas (and work methodology) ensure that we can deliver not just solutions, but architecture that scales and grows with the customer's needs over time. We are able to assist in projects ranging from short advisory engagements to assembling a full team to deliver a solution from concept through implementation and on-going management. KC has access to industry experts in various technologies and teaming partners to meet any of your IT challenges. The vision of KC is to bring the innovation, passion and agility of the commercial IT industry to meet the unique challenges of the federal government. We are a DOD Cleared Facility with a DCAA-approved accounting system.
Felix Martin, 571 435 7632 fmartin@karthikconsulting.com
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PRIME CONTRACT VEHICLES:
GSA MAS
GSA OASIS Pool 1 and 3
NIH CIO-SP3 8(a) & SB
GSA STARS III 8(a)
Air Force SBEAS
Army RS3
Navy Seaport-NexGen
FAA eFAST
