August 9, 2006—Under a small business contract with R&K Engineering serving as the prime contractor and NexDSS as a subcontractor, the US Navy recently selected this team to provide a Building-Facility Condition Assessment Program (B-FCAP) software tool and professional services program. The program will support a Navy-wide implementation in the context of a reengineered business process, according to William J. Faesenmeier, NexDSS’ Director.
The multi-million dollar B-FCAP program includes turnkey implementation of NexDSS’s decision support software product called Vertex, together with hardware maintenance, training, and support. The Vertex implementation will support 1,500 users at 120 locations around the world in managing over 555 million square feet of Navy facilities.
The B-FCAP program will also establish a Navy-wide facilities assessment process and tools that provode credible and objective facilities condition, mission, and performance information that supports the facilities sustainment and recapitalization funding and execution objectives. Additionally, the program will provide information for the Navy’s strategic investment of facility sustainment, restoration, and modernization funds.
Recently, the Navy expanded the scope of the initial program beyond the building structures. The Site-Facilities Condition Assessment Program (S-FCAP) includes assessing airfield/vehicular pavement and waterfront construction.
The Navy ultimately plans to include all site infrastructure elements into the program to be able to evaluate its real property portfolio on an enterprise level. NexDSS is also working to define business processes to define functionality and restoration ratings required for reporting in the US Dept. of Defense Readiness Reporting System.
The goal of NexDSS is to help clients reduce the cost of building ownership. For more information visit the NexDSS Web site.
