Operations Report
Neal J. Couture, CPCM
Executive Director
Board of Directors Meeting
Las Vegas, NV
January 24, 2009
Certification Program Plan
• Problem statement: NCMA certification is losing
acceptance in the contract management
profession.
• Desired state: Widely accepted certification
program.
• Board concern: need stakeholder input before
redesigning program.
– survey of key stakeholders 1/09.
– UCPPC survey in process.
CMBOK Project
• Requested proposal from Professional Examination Service
(PES) to conduct study.
• Conduct professional practice (job) analysis.
• Competency and process based.
• Validated in a public process within our community.
• Output is a statistical analysis report.
• SME’s use this to write the details describing the definitions,
processes, competencies, etc.
• Also used to develop legally defensible test specifications.
• Published document is a guide to the CMBOK.
• Target completion is 4/1/2010.
Last show airs 1/27/09 under
existing format.
Developing plans for new
approach – keeping GCW but
producing as a podcast in-house.
-Weekly program
-News and analysis
-Interviews
-Audio-blog
-Sponsors and advertisers
-Member questions
Deidre Lee, Congress Chair
Featured Speakers
• Carly Fiorina, Chairman and CEO,
Hewlett-Packard Company (19992005) and Author of the Bestseller,
Tough Choices
• The Honorable Thomas Davis III,
former Representative, Eleventh
District of Virginia, and Director,
Deloitte Federal Government Services
• Congressman Darrell Issa, 49th District
- CA (R), Ranking Republican Member,
House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee (invited)
• General Lester Lyles, USAF (Ret.),
Board of Directors for General
Dynamics Corporation, Battelle, MTC
Technologies, Inc. and former
Commander, Air Force Materiel
Command, and USAF Vice Chief of
Staff
• Larry Allen, Executive Vice President,
Coalition for Government Procurement
• Kimberly S. Rupert, Senior Vice
President for Contracts, Procurement
and Pricing, SAIC
• Ralph Nash, Professor Emeritus,
George Washington University Law
School
• Charlie Williams, Director, Defense
Contract Management Agency
• Jan Frye, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Acquisition and
Logistics, Department of Veterans
Affairs
• Dr. Kathleen Hall, Stress and Life
Balance Expert
• Professor Steven Kelman,
Weatherhead Professor of Public
Management at Harvard University's
John F. Kennedy School of
Government
• Robert Burton, Partner, Venable LLP
• Larry Schultz, Vice President,
Corporate Contract Compliance,
Parker Hannifin Corporation
• Christopher Dorobek, Editor in
Chief, Federal Computer Week
Governance of Chapters
• Task to assess risk and issues related to how
NCMA structures chapters.
• Options:
– Independently incorporated, with affiliation agreement.
– Unincorporated entities, doing business in states.
• There is risk by having chapters under our
corporate umbrella.
– Mitigated by policies and training.
• Costs and ‘chilling effect’ from mandating
incorporation.
Financial Report Update
THROUGH DECEMBER
31, 2008
YTD
ACTUAL
YTD
HISTORY
YTD
BUDGET
Revenue
Membership
911,713
808,942
878,086
Education
329,388
316,038
384,433
Advertising
693,400
753,062
688,704
Certification
47,863
36,198
51,370
618,495
551,050
611,120
2,600,859
2,465,292
2,614,913
Meetings
Total Revenue
5.5% growth from last year
Financial analysis
Concerns
• Advertising revenue dropping.
– CM jobs 25-40%
– Print ads 15-20%
• Congress registration risk.
– Travel, training spending
• Cash flow tightly restricted.
– Reserves diminished.
– New credit unlikely.
Mitigating factors
• E-learning: failed supplier.
– New product line launches 2/09.
• Sponsorships up.
– >100% ed partners/corp spons
• Membership strong.
– >10% increase overall
– Groups growing
NCMA Logo Redesign
• A 3rd focus groups was conducted after the November
Board meeting, confirming the three overarching
themes:
1. The logo needs to be refreshed and updated;
2. Members would like an element of the current logo to be
maintained in the future logo;
3. We should remove the pentagon from the logo.
Resolution
“Be it resolved, the National Contract
Management Association logo, as shown
below, is adopted effective April 5, 2009.”