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Navy SeaPort-e
Team EDC
When building teams for our business opportunity pursuits, EDC bases the selection of team members on a few basic tenets. Our first tenet is to select teammates that can provide best value to the client, in this case the Navy and Marine Corps. Specifically, we select our team members based on the depth and breadth of skills that are needed to deliver projects in the applicable task areas, and that have a proven record of success providing professional support services to their clients. Our second tenet is to develop a team composed of like-minded businesses committed to high standards, integrity, professionalism, and collaborative success. The third tenet is to build a team that has the experience and knowledge to support the work requirements in an agile and flexible manner.
Applying these tenets to our SeaPort-e teammate selection process, we created Team EDC composed of EDC Consulting as the prime contractor, and IBM Corporation and Herdt Consulting as our core teammates. Collectively, we are able to offer a team that has:
- Experience working with the Navy, Marine Corps, and other DoD Services and Agencies
- A reputation and track record for high-quality work and customer satisfaction
- Strong engineering, technical, and programmatic support competencies and capabilities
- A proven commitment to delivering and retaining qualified personnel
IBM is the world's largest professional services firm with over 380,000 professionals working with clients in both commercial and government organizations. This broad capability allows best practices to be garnered and shared from both perspectives, thereby allowing IBM to always be refining their processes, methodologies, and tools to make sure they are not just conforming to, but leading the industry as it pertains to best practices. IBM also brings an extensive reach-back capability for any specialized skills or resources needed, be they functional or technical subject matter experts across various disciplines. Additionally, IBM spends an unparalleled $5.8 billion a year in research and development, and has continually led the IT industry in U.S. patents over the past decade. The achievements from this investment are directly passed to the customer, not only in their products with breakthrough technologies, but also to their professional services organizations with new processes, tools, and techniques based on industry specific research and development.
Herdt Consulting, Inc. is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business providing business transformation services and solutions to forward-leaning organizations that includes ERP, Knowledge Management (KM), Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), Lean and Six Sigma (LSS), Thought Leadership, Strategic Planning, Organizational Change Management, Training and Leadership Solutions. They are a Seaport-e Prime in all seven Zones, and also hold GSA IT70 and MOBIS contracts. Herdt supports the Navy on multiple programs to include the Navy ERP program, where, as a subcontractor to IBM, along with teammate EDC Consulting, they provide business process re-engineering, organizational change management, and system implementation and deployment support services to the Navy's Systems Commands.
Quality Assurance Program
Implementing strong quality assurance and control requires effective program planning followed by disciplined program execution. Quality assurance and control are at the foundation of Team EDC's proven set of management methods and processes. These processes are integral to the management of every project, are codified in our Quality Control Plan, and used on every EDC engagement to manage and control quality and cost. We accomplish this by the performing the following core activities outlined in our Quality Control Plan:
- Team EDC will deliver a tailored Quality Management Plan (QMP) for each task order that: Identifies the role of the teams in quality management; Identifies quality planning activities (inputs and outputs); Identifies the customer and their requirements; Documents the standards, where they come from and how they will be used; Identifies relevant quality metrics; and Identifies the major tools and techniques of quality planning and how they will be used.
- We will monitor specific project results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards and identify ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory results by: Capturing inputs to quality control such as work results, quality management plan operations, definitions and checklists; and using a tool kit to collect and display data; inspections, check sheets, histograms, brainstorming and cause-and-effect diagrams.
- Our project teams will institute planned and systematic activities to provide confidence that the project will satisfy the relevant quality standards. The role of the quality assurance function will be to review requests for quality assurance appraisals, provide technical advice, review and build a quality environment, develop standards and guidelines where none exist, analyze errors, report problems to management and assist in correcting errors.
- The work products and deliverables we produce as part of our engagements are always accessible to the entire program and individual project teams, to include the Government Program Manager and Contracting Officer. Tangible benefits of our open approach to quality assurance and control include: Full transparency Ð no surprises at the end of the process; Planning security Ð potential delays can be addressed at the time they occur; Higher quality deliverables Ð fewer errors and defects means less re-work; and Standardization of all documentation and deliverables Ð facilitates knowledge transfer.
Task Orders Received
Program Points of Contact
Matthew Dalkiewicz
Director of Business Operations
Phone: 703-637-0068 x714
E-mail: matt.dalkiewicz@edcconsulting.net
Peter Markakos
Managing Principal
Phone: 703-637-0068 x711
E-mail: peter.markakos@edcconsulting.net
