08/10/2015
MSM Team:
Last Friday, the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton Va. selected MSM group Inc. to provide iSite, our Commercial Off The Shelf ( COTS) software to satisfy their requirements for an electronic Langley Contract Management System (LCMS). The objective of this procurement was to procure a COTS publicly hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) application that meets the Government’s requirements for an LCMS for both the LITES II and STARSS III contracts.
I would like to personally thank everyone at MSM for your help in securing this contract, without your hard work and perseverance this contract award would not have been possible.
Like all NASA Centers, NASA Langley has numerous service contracts that require an LCMS to efficiently and effectively manage contracts. Historically, NASA requires the contractor to provide such a system. Typically these systems have proven to be inadequate, often custom developed, requiring significant time, effort, and funding to modify to meet the Government’s actual requirements. These systems rarely ever meet all requirements and NASA Langley customers, primarily Technical Monitors and Resource Analysts, are frustrated by the lack of functionality and the lack of standardization across the various contract management systems. In addition to being costly to develop, these systems typically are costly to maintain as well, and these costs are passed to the Government either in contractor overhead or as direct charges to contracts. This is a systemic challenge across all NASA Centers which results in tremendous costs to the agency.
As a result of Langley’s decision to use iSite, a sea change in the process to administer NASA contracts is underway. This new approach, hosted in the Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud will be FedARAMP Compliant by November, and will drive down the total cost to manage support services contracts. We are grateful to the folks at Langley who had the vision to change the old paradigm and leverage information technology tools and business processes to drive efficiencies in government contracts.
Thanks again to everyone who made this vision a reality.
For more information, below is the most recent posting to the MSM Group Inc. website:
http://www.msmgroupinc.com/News/Display.aspx?id=20150806
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