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4 Practices for Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization of NIST'S Existing Facilities
4 Practices for Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization of NIST'S Existing Facilities
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beginning in 2020, and at the committee's evaluation of that plan. In the course of its work, the committee learned that the root cause of NIST's unsatisfactory facility situation is over 20 years of inadequate funding of the Construction of Research Facilities (CRF)
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. As Figure 4-1 also shows, the FSRM framework aligns with the current definitions of funding sources that Congress allocates to NIST to invest in FSRM spending: the CRF Appropriation.
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At the time of the committee's NIST orientation briefing, the chief facilities management officer foretold that $56 million of the FY 2022 SCMMR $80 million appropriation would be committed to annual sustainment expenditures, leaving just $24 million for emerging and backlogged minor restoration and modernization projects of SCMMR scope and for reducing NIST's $1.5 billion (2022 dollars) backlog of deferred maintenance and repair.
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Performance deficiencies are analyzed and metrics computed (e.g., backlog, Facility Condition Index, and Building Condition Index.1 The scope of needed FSRM work items and projects are then formulated. Consequently, some work items will continue to stand alone while others will be packaged together, if advantageous, for master planning, master plans implementation reports, budgeting, and execution.
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. Costs of each work item and package are estimated for programming and budgeting purposes and these estimates are used as dollar requirements for NIST budget requests for funds in the CRF appropriation (both CMR funding of major renovation and replacement projects and SCMMR funding for minor restoration and modernization work)
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Additional SCMMR funds will be required to continually sustain, restore, and modernize new and enlarged facilities in the years after expansion. The above-stated realizations led the committee back to the questions of the root cause of NIST's current, unsatisfactory facility situation and what is needed to get back on track.
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. The committee believes that VCAT's phrase "maintenance budget" is a euphemism for NIST's CRF appropriation (SCMMR plus major CMR projects for renovation and modernization)
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In FY 2022, $56.3 million of the $80 million SCMMR budget will be used for sustainment, leaving just $33.7 million for restoration and modernization and backlog reduction. Compared to $45 million of equivalent SCMMR funding in FY 2002, the $33.7 million in FY 2022 amounts to a 25 percent reduction in SCMMR funding available for restoration and modernization.
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Additionally, NIST senior leadership has recently transferred responsibility for NIST's IT network infrastructure, along with the network's deferred maintenance backlog and expansion requirements from its previous NIST sponsor to OFPM. Obviously, this unfunded transfer has further reduced OFPM's ability to execute needed SCMMR work within SCMMR funding constraints.
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Also highly significant is DOC's 2021 direction and NIST's 300-person, two campus-wide, year-long collaboration to develop a different and more ambitious multi-billion-dollar 2022 Infrastructure Plan to replace NIST's just-updated, but too modest 2020 Integrated Master Plans Implementation Report as the road map for the NIST recovery from the unsatisfactory facility situation. This new NIST draft 2022 Infrastructure Plan is also called the "OFPM's Recovery Sub-Plan for Recapitalization: $300 Million to $400 Million Annually (CMR funded)
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The 2020 Integrated Master Plans Implementation Report called for a capital investment strategy of coordinated CMR and SCMMR projects, funding streams, and schedules. An annual CMR funding stream of $80 million would allow completion of 11 top-priority CMR projects in 26 years for a total cost of $2.03 billion, and an annual SCMMR funding stream of $7 million would complete 11 top-priority SCMMR projects in 16 years for a total cost of $95 million.
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NIST's new draft 2022 Infrastructure Plan calls for much more and remarkably faster "science-first" laboratory modernization spending than the traditional 2020 Master Plans Implementation Report: 30 CMR-funded major projects at $300-$400 million per year over 12 years for the draft 2022 Infrastructure Plan compared to the 2020 Master Plans Implementation Report's 11 CMR projects at $60-$80 million per year over 26-33 years plus 11 SCMMR projects at $5-$7 million per year over 16-22 years. In June 2022, NIST's CFMO briefed an overview of NIST current and future facility and infrastructure needs to Representative Matt Cartwright (8th District PA)
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OFPM's Draft Coordinated Recovery Plan is comprised of two, parallel and linked strategies and corresponding sub-plans: "Recapitalization" and "Stabilization." The Sub-Plan for Recapitalization proposes at least 12 years of $300-$400 million "annual sustainable CMR funding" for the purpose of expeditiously providing mission capability that was eroded by more than 20 years of unfunded FSRM needs. The CFMO briefed Congress that these projects would "future-proof research spaces for flexibility, enterprise, and research IT needs." OFPM also asserts that "the projects align with 17 of the 18 congressional research priorities in NIST's FY 2022 appropriations." The Sub-Plan for Stabilization proposes at least 12 years of $120-$150 million "annual sustainable SCMMR funding" for the purpose of arresting and stabilizing the effects of further physical deterioration and functional obsolescence, and for preventing additional accumulation of new backlogs of deferred FSRM funding requirements, both deferred M&R and deferred restoration and modernization.
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The committee understands that OFPM's Draft Coordinated Recovery Plan assumes that: • Annual inflation on 2022-dollar estimated costs is 0 percent for 2023 and 2024 and 3 percent per year thereafter • Proposed funding amounts include the cost of design, construction, commissioning, furnishings, and non program equipment • Proposed funding amounts also include dollars to pay NIST's IS tax on expended CRF funds at the rate of 4.5 percent • CRF funding be used exclusively for NIST facilities sustainment, restoration, and modernization, expansion, replacement, and divestiture • Total annual costs for FSRM of existing IT infrastructure recovery will not be paid by the CRF appropriation Committee Evaluation of OFPM's Draft Coordinated Recovery Plan The committee evaluated both prongs of OFPM's Draft Coordinated Recovery Plan: the Draft Recovery Sub-Plan for Recapitalization: $300-$400 million Annually (CMR-funded) and the Draft Recovery Sub-Plan for Stabilization: $120-$150 million Annually (SCMMR-funded)
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PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINMENT, RESTORATION, AND MODERNIZATION 61 TABLE 4-3 Details of OFPM's Draft Recovery Sub-Plan for Recapitalization (CMR-funded)
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62 TABLE 4-4 Annual Investments for OFPM's Draft Recovery Sub-Plan for Recapitalization
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The committee further concludes that areas of possible improvement of OFPM's Draft Recovery Sub-Plan for Recapitalization include the following: • Renovating and retaining existing facilities when shown to be more economically and practically advantageous than replacing and demolishing them • Scheduling and funding to re-purpose, demolish or otherwise divest facilities replaced by The Recovery Plan, thereby minimizing post-recovery SCMMR requirements • Fine-tuning preliminary cost estimates as project development proceeds from preliminary to final • Ensuring sufficient SCMMR funds are budgeted to sustain renovated and replaced facilities after commissioning and occupancy • Considering implementing the best practices for laboratories described in Appendix B Conclusion 4-4: It appears to the committee that OFPM's Draft Recovery Sub-Plan for Recapitalization could achieve its purpose with a total CMR investment of around $5.125 billion over a 12-year period. Annual sus tainable CMR funding would have to be in the range of $300-$400 million (2022 dollars)
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Conclusion 4-6: OFPM's Draft Recovery Sub-Plan for Stabilization would generally achieve the purpose of providing significant annual SCMMR funding to arrest and stabilize critical physical deterioration and functional obsolescence while facilities await planned recapitalization action. However, the Sub-Plan for Stabilization needs further refinement in order to clarify its proposed scope, total amount of needed invest ment, and the possible effects of inflation on the investment amount.
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The draft Coordinated Recovery Plan calls for total annual CRF funding of $420-$550 million, but CHIPS would provide only $200 million per year, if appropriated. CHIPS funding would help, but it would provide less than half of the total annual funding requirement of OFPM's Draft Coordinated Recovery Plan, as described, evaluated, and endorsed (with provisos)
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1991. "Managing the Facilities Portfolio: A Practi cal Approach to Institutional Facility Renewal and Deferred Maintenance." S.C.
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