Doing Business With The Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA is an independent agency tasked with disaster response, planning, recovery and prevention.
Ronald Miller
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Web site:www.fema.gov/about/bios/biomiller.pdf
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What do you look for in companies that do business with FEMA?
I look for honest brokers. Government agencies have a lot of competing communities of interest within an organization and external to it. I am looking for someone who can be an honest broker and can tell me not what I want to hear, but what I need to hear.
What gets your attention with a contractor?
I'm impressed with sound business processes: if they can not only tell me what they do but how they do it. Also sound best practices, discipline in their structure, that is a selling point for me.
What are your biggest contractor gripes?
This is usually a problem only with the bigger companies, not the smaller ones: when they allow their internal politics and in-fighting to take precedence over my needs.Federal Emergency
Management Agency
500 C St. SW
Washington, DC 20472
(202) 646-4600
www.fema.gov
Founded: 1979
Director: Joe Allbaugh
Employees: 2,500; more than 5,000 reservists
What it does: FEMA is an independent agency tasked with disaster response, planning, recovery and prevention.
Major subagencies: Ten regional offices and two area offices. Each region serves several states.Budget:
$2.1 billion in 2001
$2.1 billion requested for 2002
IT services spending:
$27 million in 2000
$29 million estimated in 2001
$33 million estimated for 2002
Biggest changes of late:
FEMA's 2002 budget is still not approved. Also, the agency has received at least $2 billion in emergency funding since the Sept. 11 attacks.Based on contract obligations for third quarter fiscal 2000 through
second quarter fiscal 2001.
Dewberry & Davis LLC | $20.6 million |
Michael Baker Jr. Inc. | $15.9 million |
Verizon Communications Inc. | $12.2 million |
AT&T Corp. | $5.4 million |
National Institute of Building Science | $2.3 million |
Artel Inc. | $2.3 million |
Software House International | $1.7 million |
Comteq Federal Inc. | $1.7 million |
Titan Corp. | $1.5 million |
Jaycor Inc. | $1.5 million |
Source: Input Inc. |
- Miller is one of the few CIOs that is a political appointee. He was first appointed in July 2001 as deputy CIO.
- At www.fema.gov/ofm/, you'll find "Doing Business with FEMA" and "Doing Disaster Business with FEMA." This offers helpful, specific information about working with the agency, including how to market to FEMA, a list of active contracts and accountability reports for each fiscal year.
- Director Allbaugh came on as FEMA head in February 2001, and "campaign" could be his middle name. He was the national campaign manager for President Bush during the 2000 elections. He has been involved in campaigns in 39 states and has managed U.S. Senate and gubernatorial campaigns, as well as serving on three successful presidential campaign staffs.
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Comprehensive Exercise Program Recompete
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