Summit Session Focus: Industry & Government Perspective, Challenges Dialogue (April 12-13, Wilmington)

Session Focus: Industry and Government Perspective, Challenges Dialogue

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The Office of Senator Thom Tillis and the North Carolina Military Business Center are pleased to announce the Southeast Regional Federal Construction, Infrastructure & Environment Summit on April 12-13, 2023 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

WHEN.
April 12-13, 2023

WHERE.
Wilmington Convention Center
515 Nutt Street
Wilmington, NC 28401

PURPOSE.  “The Summit” brings together over 600 representatives of the Corps of Engineers, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Fort Bragg, Marine Corps Installations East, Seymour Johnson AFB, other Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps installations, US Coast Guard, Department of Veterans Affairs, General Services Administration, other federal agencies, general and specialty contractors, designers and construction suppliers from throughout the Southeast of the United States.

ATTENDANCE. Attendance is encouraged for:

  • General and specialty contractors that work in VA, NC, SC, GA and FL.
  • Design firms that work in VA, NC, SC, GA and FL.
  • Construction supply firms that work in VA, NC, SC, GA and FL.
  • Companies that provide facility-support contracts in VA, NC, SC, GA and FL.
  • Current federal contractors seeking partners and suppliers

SESSION FOCUS.  INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE, CHALLENGES DIALOGUE

Industry Perspective, Challenges Dialogue: Inflation, Supply Chain, Workforce and More. Industry members will provide an informative discussion on how industry representatives from the architect, engineering, general contracting, manufacturing and supplier sectors are dealing with and mitigating the impact of acquisition policies, COVID-19 regulations, supply chain management issues and workforce impacts. These and numerous other forces are in play to affect the costs of doing business.  The panel members will address these issues and provide suggestions on how industry and government can streamline the process to create cost and time savings.

Government Perspective, Challenges Dialogue: Pricing, Bonding, Bid-Holding, Execution and More. This session will be a collaborative discussion between government and industry panel members. These discussions will share observations and suggestions on how government and industry can work together to streamline the acquisition process such as using different acquisition approaches and streamlining the execution of work both pre- and post-award.  Some examples of concerns include responding to RFIs in a timely matter, reducing extensive time lines for holding prices which often exceed 180 days and reducing the time design-build teams take to prepare designs by reducing the government oversight and management.  By allowing repricing of proposals and using economic price adjustment clauses within the solicitation and contract, the firms proposing on government solicitations can eliminate some risk associated with their proposals which would result in lower proposals and costs.


WHY ATTEND THE SUMMIT?

  • The Summit is the premier, best-established and most-recognized federal construction event in the Southeast– businesses who are already engaged or want to perform in the federal market need to be there!
  • “Program and Requirements Dialogues” address future projects and acquisition strategies, contractor experiences, teaming and supplier opportunities and other issues related to acquisition and execution of projects at military bases and government throughout the Southeast.  These sessions also include information on federal opportunities in environmental engineering and remediation, energy and horizontal infrastructure (including roads and intersections, water, wastewater, natural gas and other utilities)
  • Other Summit sessions address critical and timely topics, including supplier, service contract and public-private opportunities, small business programs and utilization, budget impacts, contracting processes and pre- and post-award legal issues for federal contractors
  • Summit networking and trade show activities allow businesses to market their services and products to over 600 general contractors, specialty contractors, engineers, architects and suppliers
  • In addition, pre-Summit networking opportunities include a golf event hosted and organized by the Cape Fear Post of the Society of American Military Engineers  and an evening Summit Social at Ironclad Brewery in downtown Wilmington – a huge hit from for the past several years!