The DLA Land & Maritme Manufacturing Forum provides an overview of how to do business with the Defense Logistics Agency, including PPIPRS, cFolders, DIBBS, agency meetings and more.
While this meeting is focused on SDVOSB and WOSB owned firms, all are invited.
Agenda:
8:00 Registration / Networking
8:30 Welcome; Margot Dorfman, CEO, U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce Vice President of National Association of Small Business Contractors
8:45 Procurement Tecnical Assistant Center Darrell Sundell, Procurment Counselor
9:00 Doing Business With Defense Logistics Agency Overview Vikki Hawthorne, Associate Director, Office of Small Business Programs DLA Land and Maritime
9:45 Legislative update WOSB program – Margot Dorfman, CEO U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce
10:00 DLA Set aside programs including WOSB Vikki Hawthorne, Associate of Small Business Programs, DLA Land and Maritime
10:45 DLA-BSM Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) Overview Vikki Hawthorne, Associate of Small Business Programs, DLA Land and Maritime
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Green Manufacturing & Mastering Your Energy Manufacturing Extension Partnership
1:30 Past Performance Information Retrieval System – Buyers Using Quality and Delivery as Evaluation Factors Louanne Stocker, Steve Eisenbrey - PPIRS team, U.S. Department of the Navy (Invited)
2:15 Access of DLA Solicitation Technical Data Packages via DLA cFolders Ken Adkins, DLA cFolders Co-Process Owner (Invited)
3:00 Agency / SBLO meetings
4:30 Adjourn