GIBB personnel have provided program and project management, as well as engineering support services internationally, for such noteworthy undertakings as the Program Management Office (PMO) for the Coalition Provisional Authority for the Reconstruction of Iraq, and the Afghanistan Security Force Facilities Acquisition Program Management Office for development of Afghan security forces, court and prison systems. These programs involved program development, project planning, budget and development requests, financial management, acquisition strategy, FAR-based procurement, contract administration, earned value performance assessments for payment administration, quality control oversight, change order negotiations, contract modifications, ongoing financial projections, audit readiness, security and cybersecurity protocols, modern information technology (IT) infrastructure, telecommunications systems and networks, commissioning, and project closeout. This work spanned thousands of far-flung installations across the 18 provinces of Iraq and the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Both the Iraq and Afghan programs involved complex interaction with numerous Foreign Military Sales programs for air, ground, and water weapons and supporting systems from the many coalition-contributing nations.
GIBB personnel participated in key roles in the program management of the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka, Japan. The park featured five entertainment islands with buildings, all on an elevated concrete platform, served by a sophisticated utility and employee access system beneath the park itself at ground level. Each of these three international programs involved billions of dollars in public and private investments. They all demanded agile mission planning, accurate budgeting, robust systems for financial management, FAR compliant or FAR-like acquisition and contract administration, earned value analysis for billing and payment, change negotiations, contract modifications, quality control, on-site inspection, cash flow planning (including foreign currency fluctuation), cost-to-complete projections, cost control, active financial risk analysis, schedule management, commissioning, project acceptance, contract close-out, and a sophisticated execution team to report and liaison with investors.
GIBB personnel, as GIBBCO LLC, competed for and won three Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency projects to design, manufacture, furnish, and deliver 2,696 units of 1, 2, and 3-bedroom temporary mobile emergency housing units valued at over $235M to be provided for victims of disasters in the United States. These efforts necessitated the development of acquisition strategies, which ultimately engaged six manufacturers, and dozens of engineers, designers, quality control specialists, schedulers, and supervisory personnel. The entire program was focused on responding to natural disasters and involved intense efforts to rapidly identify, source, procure, track, and receive substantial quantities of materials and equipment essential for fabricating units at a network of small, independent, manufacturers. The sheer scale and cost of the program necessitated sophisticated acquisition, cost estimating, cash flow planning, financial management, contract administration, negotiation and change order management, quality control, and delivery systems.
