Project Management Support

Provide project support services to successfully conduct clinical and facilities technical support assistance in support of Defense Health Agency – Facilities Enterprise located at Ft. Detrick, MD.

Duties:

• Submit documentation and give presentations to support the tasks within this Performance Work Statement (PWS) on an as-required basis to identified recipients of submittals, or as requested by the Government Program Manager (PgM) or designated representative. The contractor will coordinate schedules and report progress on a weekly basis with the PgM and/or their designated representative.
• Coordinate with Regional Medical Commands, DHA Project Offices, and other DHA staff, local Corps of Engineer District and Resident Offices, other end-using agencies, Architect-Engineers (A-E), Department of Public Works (DPW), and medical facility end-users throughout all phases of project development and execution as required by the DHA-FE PgM or designated representative. The contractor will attend meetings and make recommendations concerning follow-on actions to the PgM or designated representative as appropriate.

During Design:

• Assist in gathering and analyzing data, utilizing strategic and master plans, and concepts of operations to develop project scopes of work and project documentation.
• Review and analyze site and facility as-built conditions and operations to assess requirements for construction projects and to ensure constructability and maintainability of the facility and report these results to the DHA-FE PgM or designated representative.
• Coordinate with DHA staff, A-E, DPW, and COE to receive and review concepts and design submittals of projects, as directed.
• Coordinate submittal of review comments for projects through specified processes while assisting DHA-FE designated representative.
• Coordinate development of requests for proposals (RFP) and technical specifications for projects in coordination with other DHA staffs, A-E, DPW and COE staffs as appropriate and submit these to the PgM or designated representative.
• During Construction:
• Gather and analyze projected workload requirements to provide recommendations to the PgM on the development of staffing, equipment, information technology and space needs for project offices and embedded transition management activities, as directed by the PgM.
• Evaluate and provide recommendations to the PgM on Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) with respect to budget and schedule impacts, and ensure that ECP responses are coordinated in accordance with Project Management Plans, as directed by the PgM.
• Check for completeness of technical or operational information, maintainability, and impact on project Design Intent and Total Building Commissioning (TBCx),
• Perform complete technical review of project elements such as maintainability, impact of construction changes on Design Intent and Total Building Commissioning (TBCx) submittals and construction RFIs. Provide proposed response recommendations and review comments for subsequent release to the construction contractor, within the established review and construction timeframes.

During Initial Outfitting and Transition:

• Assist with space planning, space utilization, equipment and furniture procurement coordination, operating procedures, interior design, move planning, and budgeting necessitated by projects, ensuring that these are consistent with relevant master and strategic plans and project Design Intent.

Post Occupancy:

• Assist with individual project TBCx Planning and Execution, including Design Intent development, design and submittal reviews, ECP and RFI reviews, transition processes, and post-occupancy evaluations/commissioning, to ensure Design Intent is maintained and projects are technically adequate and complete. Assist the facility user in developing maintenance plans for post-occupancy sustainment of facilities when directed by the PgM.

Required -

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with five (5) years’ experience in similar scope required
• Fifteen (15) years’ experience as a project manager required, with at least 5 years of experience in the past 5 years
• Knowledge of medical laboratory equipment and systems sterilization systems
• Facilities Management experience required
• Knowledge of DoD DMLSS systems
• Knowledge of Department of Army Safety procedures to include BioSafety in Microbiological and
• Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) most current edition
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
• Experience with Mega projects or projects over $2M

Preferred -

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred
• BioSafety Lab Level III or higher experience preferred
• Construction and Interior Outfitting & Transition experience preferred
• Three (3) years’ experience with military medical healthcare facilities preferred