Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) personnel were named winners in the 2017 Department of the Navy Acquisition Excellence Awards.

Gary V. Trimble, Husbanding Team Lead, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella, was named Acquisition Professional of the Year. Trimble's leadership was instrumental in awarding the Navy's first two regionalized Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Contracts (MAC) for husbanding services.

The IDIQ MAC acquisition strategy, a key component in revamping the Navy's husbanding process, represents a milestone in the Navy's approach to providing critical port services to ships, reduces operational risk, and maximizes competition throughout a geographic region. This acquisition strategy, in addition to moving orders and payment work off the ships, has improved communication among stakeholders; provides improved port visit planning; facilitates standardization, and develops a more efficient off-site process to validate, track, fund, and reconcile invoices; and provides more robust on-site representative support.

The NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (FLCSD) contracting office team won the Office of Small Business Programs Sarkis Tatigian Award for their small business program strategy. This award recognizes outstanding performance by a field activity in creating an organizational climate resulting in the advancement of small business opportunity through exceptionally managed small business programs and challenging initiatives. NAVSUP FLCSD applied a top-down focus to supporting the warfighter while leveraging small businesses as a strategic advantage. Not only did the command meet or exceed all small business targets, it identified new small business sources, streamlined acquisition processes, enhanced engagement with its customers, and saw innovative approaches yield solid results.

Team members from NAVSUP FLC San Diego include the Code 200 Department, led by Cmdr. Jason Klingenberg and Marcia Cruz, and oversight by Gary Thomas as the Small Business Director.

NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support won the Small Business Team Award. The team identified new sources for small businesses using social media, J&A review, database searches, and market research. These actions resulted in increased competition, reduced costs, and new small business opportunities in a largely non-competitive environment. NAVSUP WSS team members include Natalia Luciw, Robert Hughes, Anne Bihl, John Zacharkow, and Katherine Rachubinski.

"NAVSUP awards about 40 percent of the Navy's contracts and being recognized for acquisition excellence truly means a great deal to us," said NAVSUP Commander Rear Adm. Jonathan A. Yuen. "I am very proud of our people and the work they do."

Awards will be presented in an October ceremony in the Pentagon.

The Department of Navy Acquisition Excellence Awards program recognizes those acquisition professionals and teams that have made significant contributions to the Navy and Marine Corps acquisition process. Leveraging competition and small businesses, finding innovative procurement techniques, and superior professional acumen are the hallmarks of those outstanding persons and teams recognized by these awards.

NAVSUP's mission is to provide supplies, services, and quality-of-life support to the Navy and joint warfighter. With headquarters in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and employing a diverse, worldwide workforce of more than 22,500 military and civilian personnel, NAVSUP oversees logistics programs in the areas of supply operations, conventional ordnance, contracting, resale, fuel, transportation, and security assistance. In addition, NAVSUP is responsible for food service, postal services, Navy Exchanges, and movement of household goods.




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