Octo’s Agile Web Presence Program Recipient of Prestigious DoD Packard Award for Acquisition Excellence
February 21 2018 - 09:46AM
Business Wire
Innovative fixed price Agile contracting approach yields
recognition for NGA program responsible for customer-facing
geospatial-intelligence discovery portals
Octo Consulting Group (Octo), a premier next-generation IT
Federal services provider, announced that its $38.9M Prime
Development Program, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(NGA) Agile Web Presence (AWP) and the PMO supporting that program,
is the recipient of the annual David Packard Award for Acquisition
Excellence sponsored by the Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD(AT&L)).
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This prestigious award recognizes Department of Defense (DoD)
civilian and military organizations, groups, or teams who have
demonstrated exemplary innovation and best practices in their
approach to program management, demonstrated innovation and
technical excellence in the acquisition of products and services to
achieve more cost-effective acquisition outcomes for the Warfighter
and the taxpayer.
AWP is the first Agile contract where NGA pays a fixed price for
development capacity (e.g. Scrum Teams) rather than pre-determined
deliverables or labor hours. This contracting model allows the
government flexibility to adjust its purchased capacity based on
its backlog and available funding while prioritizing those features
that are most important to enhancing customers’ user experience.
This unique fixed price Agile model emphasizes the importance of
the relationship between government and contractor where all
aspects of planning, execution, and delivery are fully transparent
and communications are strong between both parties. The successful
software deliveries to date and the realized cost savings to the
government in executing this model, make it an ideal option moving
forward for NGA, the Intelligence Community, and Federal government
when purchasing Agile development services.
“The award demonstrates our commitment to innovation, and a true
partnership between our government customer and Octo. This type of
collaboration can generate lasting results that bolster not only
agency goals, but enhance our national security,” said Mehul
Sanghani, Octo’s CEO.
About Octo Consulting Group
Octo is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of
technology and modernization services for the Federal government.
Octo specializes in providing agile software development, user
experience design, and cloud engineering services that address the
government’s most pressing missions and modernization
challenges.
Octo is one of only 11 private companies in the United States to
have been appraised at CMMI® Level 4 for Software Development
Maturity (CMMI-DEV). Additionally, Octo maintains ISO 9001, ISO
20000, and ISO 27001 certifications and is one of only seven
government contractors that is a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®)
Gold Partner: an industry-accepted framework for developing
software applications using Agile development principles.
Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Octo has additional offices
in Alexandria, Virginia and Columbia, Maryland. Learn more at
octoconsulting.com.
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