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This is the participant guide for Thursday, June 26's Cloud Computing Hackathon, an ASI Government Learning Path: Cloud event. Still time to register! http://aws.amazon.com/events/wwps/symposia/washington/ Let's learn & earn together.TRANSCRIPT
Federal Procurement of Cloud ServicesAn Acquisition Hackathon
June 2014
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An acquisition hackathon brings practitioners from both sides of the
transaction (government and industry) into a problem solving environment to develop solutions that are shared with
the broader community.
What is an “Acquisition Hackathon”?
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Let’s Hack the Cloud!
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Solve Challenges, Earn Points, Advance Capabilities
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
The Cloud Acquisition Dictionary
Describe the Customer’s Need
Create an Acquisition Strategy
Challenge 4
Challenge 5
Challenge 6
Identify Risks
Create SLAs or a QAP
Develop an Evaluation Methodology
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Challenge 1: Breaking Down Communication Barriers
Rules of Game Play:• Multiple definitions for a term will be
accepted• 1 point per definition
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leo elementum, ultricies lacinia ante. • Fusce sagittis mauris ac semper
venenatis. • In hac habitasse platea dictumst. • Donec justo mauris, accumsan
ullamcorper ligula quis, ultrices volutpat risus. • Ut id scelerisque nulla.
• We need to store non-sensitive public data
• Providers must have a FedRAMP ATO
• Customers will order services from a catalogue
Plain Language Please!!
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Challenge 2: Describing Customer Need
FUNCTION:
PERFORMANCE:
CHARACTERISTICS:
What is performed or fulfilled?
What problem is solved?
What does it look like, how does it work, to what is it connected, etc?
Defining the customer’s need is crucial to a successful acquisition. What are you buying, who is it for, and
how will they use it?
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Challenge 2: Describing Customer Need
Rules of Play• Review your group’s scope statement• Simplify it by describing the need in terms of its
function, performance, and essential characteristics
• 3 points available for completing the challenge
IaaS PaaS SaaS
+1+1
+1
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Challenge 3: Acquisition Strategy
Rules of Play• Select a contract type and method of
procurement for your team’s scope statement
• 3 points available• Earn 3 bonus points if you defend your
selection with a logical argument
EPA Incentive Price Redetermination LoE Term Award
FeeFixed Fee
Incentive Fee
Time & Materials
Labor Hour
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Challenge 4: Populate the Open Risk Registry
Rules of Play• Identify risks inherent to your acquisition strategy
from Challenge 3.• Assign an impact and likelihood rating to each
risk and plot them on a risk matrix• 1 point for each entry, 1 bonus point for crafting a
mitigation strategy
Fixed PriceContractor bears maximum risk &
responsibility for costs
CostGovernment &
contractor share the cost & technical risk
Program and performance risk…
…is everyone’s responsibility.
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Challenge 5: Your Choice! SLA Registry or QAP
Rules of Play: Service Level Agreement Registry
• Using the same acquisition strategy you selected in Challenge 4, identify the SLA’s that would maximize the effectiveness of your cloud contract
• One point for each SLA
Rules of Play: Quality Assurance Plan
• Using the same acquisition strategy you selected in Challenge 4, identify the work that will require surveillance and the method used for surveillance
• One point for each entry
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Challenge 6: Evaluation Strategy
Rules of Play• Building on your previous efforts for your
customer’s need and acquisition strategy, create an evaluation plan for a best value-tradeoff source selection
• One point for each evaluation factor your team creates
• 5 point bonus for devising a rating system addressing each of your evaluation factors
Offer 1 Offer 2 Offer 3 Offer 4
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Let’s get to WORK