Army Logistician (LOGCAP 1. An Operational Planner’s Guide)In the May–June issue of Army Logistician. I provided an overview of the Logistics Civil Augmentation. Program (LOGCAP). In this article, I will discuss. I believe will help bridge the information. LOGCAP doctrine. Preplanning It should go without saying that developing the concept of support, internal. Army service component command (ASCC) planner. However, planners. Whether because of simulation training, during which controllers can. LOGCAP would “handle it.” In. LOGCAP 102: An Operational. except they should go a step further and specify LOGCAP support criteria and standards of service in order to standardize usage. for receiving support to improve the soldiers’ quality of life. Preplanning for LOGCAP support begins with the theater joint planning group and. ASCC or combined joint force land component commander (CJFLCC). It. involves all staff elements, not just the J–4, and it is a requirements- driven. These staff elements analyze the mission throughout all phases of the. According to Field Manual 1. Contracting Support on the Battlefield. Coalition Forces Land Component Command’s. CFLCC’s) principal assistant responsible for contracting (specified in. His options may. include contingency contracting, host nation contracts, the Army Corps of Engineers. LOGCAP. All contract requirements, including those of the LOGCAP contract. Fluor is one of the world’s largest publicly traded engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), maintenance, and project management companies. LOGCAP IV Graduate; People Videos Legal | Trademarks |. . and improve the deployed soldiers’ quality of life. Colonel Karen E. LeDoux is a student at the Army War College. She was the Commander of the LOGCAP Support Unit Forward in the Army Materiel Command Logistics. . will be developed in accordance with the requirements within the current National Industrial Security Program Operation Manual. quality of life standards provided. AMC PM LOGCAP Umbrella Support contract. Quality of life (QOL). their reported quality of emotional daily experiences (their reported experiences of joy, affection. and neighborhoods design standards such as LEED-ND are often used in an attempt to influence. LOGCAP 102: An Operational. determine criteria and standards of service for base camps supported by LOGCAP. ing support to improve the soldiers’quality of life. 821 failure led to potentially hazardous. life. Identify systemlcally of LOGCAP quality Implementaticm, of FAR 52 246-5 LOGCAP SOW 14 8.0. and the KBR Rev 5, dated 3 Dec is the second. paragraph I performance Standards. Standards for a particular system are available. Measuring the Quality of Your O&M Program. (Building Life-Cycle Cost). C/JARB). Although it is an Army program, LOGCAP provided support to all of the services. Government agencies during Operations Enduring. Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Because LOGCAP is so widely employed, the combatant. COCOM) should consider including a subannex on LOGCAP in the logistics. LOGCAP services provided to other branches of the military, coalition. Government agencies do not conflict with each other. For. LOGCAP, the COCOM also should allocate military force protection assets as required. Under the current contract, the military forces using LOGCAP services are required. LOGCAP Funding. Commanders must provide the LOGCAP contractor with sufficient funds to begin. They also must monitor the execution of the contract to make sure. Authorizing funding and tracking expenditures are. Team LOGCAP’s. [Team LOGCAP. Directorate of LOGCAP Operations, the LOGCAP Support Unit (LSU). Procurement Contracting Officer (PCO), and additional Department of Defense. DOD) and Department of the Army (DA) personnel from the Defense Contract Management. Agency (DCMA) and the Army Corps of Engineers.] In contingency operations, LOGCAP is funded with Operations and Maintenance. Army (OMA), funds. Because of the magnitude of current LOGCAP support to U. S. forces, the Office of Management and Budget is funding LOGCAP efforts on an incremental. To remain in compliance with the Antideficiency Act, the Government can. Therefore, incremental. LOGCAP- supported operation restricts the contractor’s. For example, if a statement of work (SOW) is funded at only 2. Incremental funding limits the contractor’s ability. When the LOGCAP prime contractor is tasked. SOW to perform a service, he generally subcontracts that service. The bottom. line is that the contractor cannot subcontract or procure equipment without adequate. Contractors are in business to make a profit or at least break even. Government cannot ask a contractor to operate “at risk” by. An SOW that is funded to at least 5. This maximizes economies. Government. Theater/ASCC LOGCAP Tasks. To standardize implementation processes in his theater of operations, the COCOM. SOP) for using LOGCAP. The. SOP should—• Determine the optimal structural framework, or architecture, for implementing. LOGCAP successfully in theater and articulate the decisions to the subordinate. Getting this right up front sets the stage for success. This step. was skipped in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.) • Decide if SOWs will be structured by function, location, or combined. CJTF).• Reinforce the requirement for acquisition review boards, such as the. C/JARB, facilities boards, and integrated staff fusion planning cells—especially. Identify approval authorities for the SOW and rough order of magnitude. ROM); the latter is the contractor’s ceiling price for costs that he will. Outline processes for identifying and validating the requirements of. Establish a budget ceiling and funding processes to track the expenditure. Establish priorities in the operation plan and issue fragmentary orders. LOGCAP supports multiple services, coalition. DOD, and other Federal agencies as it has done in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Based on the operation plan and fragmentary orders, DCMA administrative contracting. Establish “lanes of operation” for organic engineer units. Army Corps of Engineers), and service augmentation. Air Force Contract Augmentation Program or LOGCAP) to reduce. Determine the desired end state of LOGCAP support. This will facilitate. CFLCC’s principal assistant responsible for contracting.• Determine Team LOGCAP staffing levels and locations, and submit a request. LSU and DCMA elements or direct the Army Materiel Command. Logistics Support Element Forward to call LSU elements forward as required.• Establish theater criteria for requesting and using LOGCAP. Create LOGCAP. services templates and determine criteria and standards of service for base camps. LOGCAP. Planners should answer the following questions: Who will. LOGCAP services? Will every forward operating base receive the full menu. LOGCAP services, or will those services be available only to enduring bases. What criteria determine if LOGCAP will. The services templates should be similar to U. S. Central. Command’s “Sandbook” or U. S. European Command’s “Red. Book,” except they should go a step further and specify LOGCAP support. LOGCAP operations. Mission creep” is sure to. Commanders naturally want to increase the level. This will result in contract turbulence and additional changes to the. SOW, which will delay definitizing the contract and require an increase in the. LOGCAP funding ceiling. In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the CFLCC created its SOWs by function and the Multinational. Force- Iraq (MNF–I) by combined joint task force (CJTF). The SOWs developed. CJTF contained better developed and more detailed standardized. These procedures were more efficient. Therefore, even though MNF–I. LOGCAP SOW. there have been fewer changes to its SOW. This may lead to definitizing the LOGCAP. Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations. DFAR), and allow the commander to transition to a sustainment contract more. Pre- and Postaward Tasks. The ASCC or JFLCC first must determine that a requirement to use LOGCAP exists. DA G–4. Then, based on. LOGCAP SOP and theater contracting support plan, supported units. CJTF, or base camp, with assistance from the LSU. Integrating the LOGCAP contractor into the planning process early to. However, the contractor. This is a conflict of interest. The contractor should be involved only in identifying. Identifying and articulating requirements and obtaining C/JARB approval.• Writing the SOW. LSU officers have template SOWs that are available on. Preparing an independent cost estimate.• Requesting a ROM and the contractor’s technical execution plan. TEP) through LSU and LOGCAP representatives.• Reviewing and approving the contractor’s ROM and TEP for adequacy. Requesting a notice to proceed (NTP) through the LSU and Directorate. LOGCAP Operations from the PCO.• Identifying, validating, and writing changes to the SOW.• Identifying a single point of contact through which LOGCAP requirements. Team LOGCAP. Supported units in the communications zone, joint task force, or base camp, with. DCMA, are responsible for these postaward tasks—• Attending DCMA start- work meeting.• Nominating personnel to DCMA to serve as contracting officer’s. COTRs) to monitor local contractor execution of the. A COTR should be assigned at every location and function where the. DCMA must train these personnel and formally delegate their duties. A COTR provides contractor performance data, execution status, and operational. DCMA and the supported unit’s chain of command for input. Providing lessons learned and observations to Team LOGCAP. LOGCAP Planning Considerations. In implementing the LOGCAP (or any contract), commanders must balance the desired. In contingency. contracting, it is unrealistic to expect to receive more than two of these. In other words, if a needed service has to be good. If a service is needed quickly and at a low. If a low- cost, quality service is. The bottom line is that preplanning is. Backward planning should factor in the time needed for the contractor to ramp. Backward planning means that milestones are laid out. Since LOGCAP is not a standby. Recent experience indicates that, depending on the complexity. The LOGCAP contract identifies these specific response. Receive and support up to 1,5. NTP. • Receive 3,0. NTP+3. 0. • Bed down 5. NTP+1. 80. The ability of LOGCAP to reach full performance depends entirely on the full. Until the contractor is at full performance, the military must. The contractor’s. Government- provided contractor security is not available. These delays are considered to be Government delays, not contractor delays. Although the LOGCAP contractor can use commercial resources to transport equipment. As they develop movement plans, commanders must provide adequate force. Contractors also may need to move personnel and emergency equipment throughout. If contractor operations. Contractors are civilians accompanying the force. The farther forward into the. The military must integrate contractor requirements for force protection, bed. Field Manual 3–1. Contractors on the Battlefield, and Army. Regulation 7. 15–9, Contractors Accompanying the Force, offer detailed information. Before writing an SOW, commanders must determine what equipment the Government. Requests to transfer unit equipment to the contractor permanently. DA G–4, and the provisions of DFAR 4. Transferring Government equipment to the contractor in theater saves time and. It also reduces contract. However, the Army then must replace. Government- furnished equipment. This requires the. Army to acquire previously unforecasted procurement funding. Some contractor commercial equipment leases or purchases require a long lead.
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