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1. Introduction
Pages 5-8

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... Several studies over the past 15 years have looked closely at the facility delivery process in the federal government under the auspices of the National Research Council. These documents contain several recurring themes that will be explored in more detail in this report.
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... ; · the need for senior-level involvement and oversight in the facility delivery process, including preproject planning (Federal Facilities Council, 2000; National Research Council, 1998a; 2001~. PROBLEM STATEMENT Developing a scope of work for design presents a number of challenges.
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... Issues related to acquisition strategies for federal facilities will be addressed in a future report. The committee also requested that the following issues or topics be addressed during the course of this study: the core competencies, organizational support, and training needed by the various stakeholders to effectively fulfill their roles and responsibilities; methods for identifying stakeholders and their appropriate roles and responsibilities when developing a scope of work for design; practices used in selected federal agencies to develop scopes of work for design; practices used by nonfederal organizations to develop scopes of work for design and their transferability to the federal sector; the project scope of work and preproject planning decisions that need to be made and the information needed to make them; the elements that should be included in a scope of work for design and what may happen in subsequent phases of acquisition if these elements are not included; identification of variations in the elements of a scope of work for design depending on the acquisition strategy; development of baselines and metrics for measuring the quality and performance of a facility and its relationship to the scope of work for design; and tools and technologies that can be used to support the development of scopes of work for design.
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... Information from that conference has been incorporated as appropriate (National Research Council, 2002~. ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT This report is divided into five chapters with supporting appendixes.
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Key Terms

  • federal facilities
  • acquisition strategy
  • project scope
  • facilities council
  • facility delivery

  • key practices
  • delivery process
  • develop scopes
  • facility projects
  • budgeting process

  • support preproject
  • organizational performance
  • major renovation
  • developing scopes
  • planning activities

  • help ensure
  • planning team
  • acquisition strategies
  • organizational support
  • interview questionnaire

  • federal budgeting
  • produce statistical
  • process requires
  • provided direction
  • funding requirements

  • planning entitled
  • previous research
  • actions required
  • selected federal
  • project decisions


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