Federal Systems Integration and Management Center

General Services Administration

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Agency overview
Formed	February 29, 1972
Headquarters	1800 F Street, NW Suite 6300 Washington, DC 20405
Employees	300
Annual budget	https://fedsim.gsa.gov/
Agency executive	https://fedsim.gsa.gov/
Website	https://fedsim.gsa.gov/

GSA FEDSIM provides assisted acquisition support for information technology systems and services, and professional services, to other U.S. Government agencies on a fee for service basis. FEDSIM is the leading provider of assisted acquisition services for federal agencies. Their services include acquisition, financial, and project management for the full acquisition life cycle.

FEDSIM serves all federal agencies; to learn more about their diverse portfolio of projects visit https://fedsim.gsa.gov/services.html. They can utilize any government-wide contract vehicle, allowing them to determine the most cost-effective, innovative acquisition solution for each client’s requirements. A list of their contract vehicles can be found at https://fedsim.gsa.gov/cvehicles.html.

History

In 1972, the U.S. Congress established the Federal Computer Performance Evaluation and Simulation Center at the General Services Administration (GSA) with the goal of providing expertise in computer performance evaluation and modeling to other Government agencies for a fee. GSA delegated the organization to the U.S. Air Force Data Automation Agency as GSA’s executive agent. FEDSIM is funded by fees paid by its customer agencies rather than an appropriated budget. Initially, most FEDSIM projects supported the Air Force, Army, Navy, and other Defense Department agencies. Subsequently, FEDSIM’s clients have come to include all cabinet-level departments, many independent agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA, small U.S. Government offices, both houses of Congress, and the Judicial Branch.

FEDSIM projects during the 70s and 80s included designing and optimizing agencies’ national data communications networks; simulation of the performance of a major weapons system; sizing and estimating the cost of creating a new agency data center; purchasing mainframe computers for client agencies; and many others. Large and long-running FEDSIM projects from the 80s and up to the present have included IT support of ADNET, a multi-agency Anti-Drug Network; development of the Internal Revenue Service’s Electronic Filing system E-file; purchase of scientific computers for the National Institutes of Health; program management support to JIDA, the Defense Department’s Joint Improvised-threat Defeat Agency; and multi-faceted system integration projects for the Agency for International Development, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and others. To learn more about FEDSIM’s current work, visit https://fedsim.gsa.gov/services.html.

FEDSIM Directors
1	Col. Kent Berge	1972 – 1973
2	Col. Richard Lejk	1973 – 1977
3	Col. David Igelman	1977 – 1980
4	Col. Richard Blair	1980 – 1984
5	Col. Ben Gomez	1984 – 1985
6	Col. Charles Conoyer	1985 - 1986
7	Charles Self	1986 - 1996
8	John Ortego	1996 - 1998
9	Tim McCurdy	1998 - 2003
10	Lisa Akers	2003 - 2008
11	Steve Viar	2008 - 2014
12	Chris Hamm	2014 -

Chris Hamm is the current Director at FEDSIM, as has been since 2014. The entire Leadership team, which is divided into sectors, can be referenced at https://fedsim.gsa.gov/leadership.html. FEDSIM’s leaders have gone on to become Assistant Commissioners, Commissioners, directors of the Government’s largestdata centers, independent consultants, and in senior leadership positions in the industry.

Organization

FEDSIM is currently organized as a Client Support Center housed within GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) - Office of Assisted Acquisition Services.

Responsibilities

FEDSIM provides assisted acquisition services to civilian and military U.S. Government agencies worldwide. FEDSIM specializes in large, complex procurements. It establishes an Integrated Project Team that manages the procurement from requirements gathering to award and through to the end of the performance period. FEDSIM offers innovative, dedicated approaches to acquisition resulting in cost savings and higher quality goods and services.

FEDSIM acquisition innovations include the use of performance-based contracting methods and strategic sourcing methods that lower costs by consolidating purchases across many agencies. In addition, FEDSIM has been part GSA’s Commercial Solution Opening (CSO) pilot and has been an integral part of GSA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contracts.

As U.S. Government IT acquisitions have suffered a resurgence of legal disputes (protests) following a change in the applicable law, FEDSIM has become experienced in protest defense to the point that agencies seek its services for this reason.