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7 The Future of Capital Planning for the NIH Bethesda Campus
7 The Future of Capital Planning for the NIH Bethesda Campus
Pages 96-108
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By providing an objective and accurate assessment of an institution's built environment, as well as its developmental potential, rigorous facilities capital planning can serve as a critical component of effective biomedical research and healthcare strategic planning (Manevich, 1985)
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Similar to NIH's IRP, each of these entities has in-house research professionals, specialized research equipment and test facilities, and research-focused capital assets. In addition, the committee reviewed a recent report by the Institute for Defense Analysis on the capital planning, prioritization, and management at 10 research laboratories that conduct U.S.
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The NRL Corporate Facilities Investment Plan explicitly analyzes the link between mission, research, and facilities, and is aligned with the Naval Warfare Center, and in collaboration with the DoD Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Recent NRL capital asset initiatives include an "Innovation Space" for new collaborative research efforts, as well as extensive sharing of specialized equipment and laboratory space.
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The periodic reviews of the strategic value of NIST research activities by external expert panels do not usually concern capital assets. There does not appear to be shared laboratory space or extensive sharing of specialized equipment or testing facilities.
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The ARS conducted approximately $1.5 billion in research in FY 2017, a large majority (92 percent) of which was funded by the Department of Agriculture, 6 John Shonder, Oak Ridge National Research Laboratory, NASA Facilities Engineering and Real Property Conference, 2011, https://fred.hq.nasa.gov/Capital assets/Docs/ConferenceNashville2011/Tuesday/ShonderAltFinEULPPA.pdf.
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The associate administrator for research and operations reports directly to the ARS budget director. Summary of Comparable Portfolio Capital Asset Management at Federal Research Agencies All four federal agencies that presented their capital asset management practices to the committee have instituted external expert panels to assess research missions, and three of the four agencies use external panels to assess the alignment of the agency's mission with capital facility assets management and planning (see Table 7.3)
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Institute for Defense Analyses Benchmarking Analysis of Federal Security Laboratories In 2013, the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) reviewed the capital facilities planning, prioritization, and management practices at 10 research laboratories that conduct national security research.
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The study found that, in part, the planning and prioritization challenges were often due to the lack of communication among stakeholders for the federal security laboratories, and particularly the missing link of the dependence of mission capabilities on F&I capital assets. This challenge of establishing the mission-F&I dependence is complicated by the need for detailed data, metrics, and analysis, which is often expensive and time-consuming to collect and consistently update.
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The Acquisition Review Board reviews and approves Level 1 and 2 projects at each phase of the acquisition life-cycle framework. Moreover, the Program Review Board reviews and makes recommendations on projects to the DHS Secretary; the Joint Requirements Council assesses the project's alignment with strategic requirements; and the Capital asset Review Board is responsible for managing the DHS capital portfolio.
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In general, the university-affiliated research center laboratories generate central fund sources through a percentage fee applied to all research enterprise expenditures. IDA Observations on Enhanced Outcomes and Leverage of Existing Capital Assets in Research Collaboration and Engagement Among Multiple Research Enterprises Several laboratories reviewed in the report explicitly collaborate with other agencies and organizations to increase capital asset utilization and advance agency mission objectives.
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. CAPITAL ASSET PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCE-BASED CAPITAL PLANNING DECISION MAKING As noted in the previous section, NIH is one of multiple scientific government research agencies engaged in strategically aligning facilities and their real estate portfolio to achieve future organizational goals, while contending with decreasing budgets and rising facility operating costs, in combination with responding to technological and socioeconomic drivers and federally mandated compliance requirements.
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"as a systematic process for maintaining, upgrading, and operating physical capital assets cost effectively." Effective facilities capital asset management combines engineering principles with sound business practices and economic theory and provides tools to facilitate a more organized and logical approach to decision making. Federal agencies began capital asset management implementation actions in response to Executive Order 13327, issued February 4, 2004, which required all federal entities to take a more corporate approach to managing real property capital assets by developing capital asset management plans, establishing appropriate performance measures, and gaining an understanding of life cycle costs of the inventory (IWR, 2013)
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There should be broad participation in the workshop, including by principal investigators, junior faculty, and research laboratory staff; capital and operating budget staff; information technology leaders; capital planning staff; campus infrastructure operations staff and maintenance leaders; and representatives from other federal agencies and academic research institutions. Recommendation 7.4: To verify the presence of subject-matter expertise within its core administrative leadership, NIH should review and consider whether its organizational structure ensures that its Bethesda Campus scientific research and capital assets management strategies and plans are aligned.
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