ASSET MANAGEMENT

Capabilities

LMI helps federal asset managers more effectively manage their portfolio of property, from acquisition through potential disposal, including the following:

• Strategic stockpiles
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Requirements determination
• Portfolio and investment analysis
• Life-cycle analysis
• Management controls
• Personal property management.

CLIENTS AND SOLUTIONS

DOE—Project Management Oversight

The Department of Energy has had cost and schedule overrun problems with its acquisition of capital assets, so it contracted with LMI to review project management processes and recommend ways to improve the establishment of realistic baselines. Over the past 7 years, we have analyzed more than 70 large construction projects, including the $11 billion Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project at Hanford. After each review, LMI provides DOE with detailed reports that identify project management shortcomings, review risk management and contingency analyses, and address cost and schedule estimating deficiencies. By implementing our recommendations and continuing to adopt our suggestions, DOE has markedly improved its project performance.

USPS—Cost-Effective Facility Condition Assessment

The U.S. Postal Service manages a geographically dispersed inventory of more than 37,000 facilities throughout the United States. It required a cost-effective program to assess the condition of these facilities. The program needed to encompass the traditional use of architects and engineers as well as allow for assessments by other postal employees to generate reliable and actionable information. LMI, working with USPS, is developing a national inspection database application, based on our I•CAM process, that will include web-based inspection tools. These tools will allow a nontechnical person to assess a facility using a series of questions, picklists, and photographs that will yield reliable and actionable information. The national application will generate the reporting, costing, prioritization, and prognostic metrics USPS requires for management and budgeting purposes.

NOAA—Facilities Modernization Model

Management of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility and infrastructure assets faces increasingly difficult challenges, including aging facilities and infrastructure, lack of proper facility infrastructure investment, and increasing demand for high-quality service and better customer responsiveness. LMI developed the NOAA Facilities Modernization Initiative model to help NOAA improve the long-range planning needed to strategically manage its capital facility portfolio and link directly to NOAA strategic direction. The FMI model assesses the adequacy of the NOAA facility portfolio, validates future facility investments to address program requirements, and defines the portfolio of recapitalization, repair, and maintenance projects needed for NOAA facilities.

CDC—Preparing the Strategic National Stockpile

In the post-9/11 environment, rapid response to potential terrorist threats or public health emergencies is critical. LMI helped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention create and maintain a Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of drugs and medical supplies to respond quickly to these events. Our roles have been diverse: we have created acquisition, storage, and distribution strategies; evaluated, selected, and implemented enterprise resource planning systems; and planned and conducted complex, no-notice exercises to test CDC and its leaders. The result? The SNS provides a cutting-edge logistics and public health response program capable of speeding very large quantities of medical assets and the staff to manage them anywhere in the United States within hours.

DoD—Healthcare Response Planning and Execution

For the Department of Defense's Critical Infrastructure Program, LMI worked with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to develop the Primary Health Assets Staging Tool (PHAST), a database focused on the collection and management of assets needed to provide mission assurance and respond to incidents involving emergency health and medical needs. The database creates a capability to immediately identify healthcare assets in a prescribed geographical area. This information is important for planning and executing healthcare response in crisis situations such as terrorist attacks, natural disasters, or other types of healthcare emergencies, and could be used by any agency responsible for planning and responding. The information also forms a key component of situational awareness, rapidly identifying assets available for response to unfolding events or scenarios.