Challenge
The Strategic Acquisition Center (SAC) is responsible for awarding standardized strategic-level contracts for a range of medical, dental, surgical, and laboratory supplies for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). To achieve efficiencies and cost savings, SAC required coordinated and consistent oversight and management of these acquisition processes.
Solution
SAC contracted Atlas Research to provide program planning and scheduling support for SAC’s medical, surgical, dental, and laboratory supplies contracts. Atlas’ support included reviewing current contracting processes and working with SAC to map schedules and critical acquisition milestones. From there, the Atlas Team provided project planning (e.g., requirements analytics and action planning), project administration (e.g., resource management and communication with customers and stakeholders), and project implementation (e.g., quality assurance, project documentation, and review) for acquisition schedules developed for medical, surgical, dental, and laboratory supplies.
Result
Atlas is now working with SAC to maintain and monitor acquisition schedules related to medical, surgical, dental, and laboratory supplies. Additionally, the Atlas Team is working with SAC leadership to routinely review milestones, identify potential issues, and incorporate scheduling lessons learned to improve accountability, flexibility, and cost savings throughout the contracting process.