2022 PTAC Annual Report

PTAC

WELCOME.

The Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) has proudly served Utah businesses for over 35 years. As a statewide program, we cover all 29 counties, with our eight offices located to maximize access to PTAC’s services. Our staff assisted 566 new businesses over the past twelve months, and spent a total of 2,300 hours counseling businesses PTAC staff participated in 87 events while managing the procurement efforts of hundreds of clients These metrics result from our commitment to our mission to help our clients enter into, navigate, and succeed in the government marketplace.

Each PTAC staff member is highly professional and well-trained. Our regional managers have years of experience in federal, state, and local government contracting. We offer one-on-one coaching, monthly outreach workshops, bid proposal assistance, and many other services.

I invite you to browse through this report and celebrate with us these highlights from our past program year. More importantly, I hope this publication inspires more businesses to seek our services — maybe even yours! Whether you are new or experienced in government contracting, we’d love to help. I’ve saved the best part for last: we provide our services at no cost to you!

We look forward to another year assisting Utah businesses!

Chuck Spence

PTAC Director

As the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity (Go Utah), I have the privilege of overseeing many programs that act in concert to strengthen and grow our state’s economy. Our PTAC helps Utah businesses compete in the government marketplace and obtain contracts. The team counsels clients one-on-one in everything related to government contracting, from initial registrations to post-award compliance. This annual report details the many successes they’ve achieved.

PTAC plays a key role in the Go Utah Office: when Utah businesses win contracts, our state wins too. Jobs are created and retained, tax revenues increase, and the economy grows. PTAC’s impact on the state economy is significant. I’m pleased to report that this past year, with PTAC’s assistance, Utah businesses collectively won over $850 million in government contracts!"

If your business is interested in government contracting, I urge you to contact our PTAC office. They will take great care of you.

Dan Hemmert

Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity

MISSION

The Procurement Technical Assistance Center helps businesses successfully compete in the government marketplace by providing knowledgeable and outstanding customer service SERVICES

The Procurement Technical Assistance Center provides the following services and many more!

Individual Counseling

Workshops and Conferences

Registration Assistance

System for Award Management (SAM)

General Services Administration (GSA)

Utah Public Procurement Place (U3P)

Bid Proposal Assistance

Networking Facilitation

Training and Education

Bid Match: a proprietary, automated bid-finding service tailored to your company’s profile

Provide specifications, commercial standards, and procurement histories

Capabilities Statement development assistance

TEAM

DIRECTOR

Chuck is the director of the statewide PTAC program. Prior to his appointment in 2016, he served for 11 years as PTAC Deputy Director and was the Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (APTAC) President from 2015 –2016. Chuck also served as president of the Utah Supplier Development Council from 2008 - 2011

801-538-8655

CHUCK SPENCE

MPA, ACAS

cspence@utah.gov

60 East South Temple, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Utah

PROGRAM SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Sara is a recent graduate of the University of Utah with a degree in Business Administration. She works closely with Chuck to organize and operate the PTAC program. Sara also serves as a liaison for the Supplier Diversity Initiative.

801-538-8775

sortiz@utah.gov

60 East South Temple, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Utah

TROY MCCLAIN

REGIONAL MANAGER for BOX ELDER, CACHE, RICH counties

Troy served in the military for over 10 years. Throughout the following decade, Troy became a certified arborist, provided consultations for new and established businesses within his industry, and fulfilled numerous contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for tree maintenance and removal.

435-750-3273

tmcclain@btech.edu

1410 North 1000 West, Room 1900, Logan, Utah

JOHN ROBBINS MBA PAULA KRAMER

REGIONAL MANAGER for DAVIS, MORGAN, WEBER counties

John is the PTAC Regional Manager for Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties. He retired in 2021 after a 25 year career serving as a foreign service officer (Bolivia, Serbia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Washington DC) and a contracting officer for the US Air Force.

801-593-2242 jrobbins@utah.gov

450 South Simmons Way, Kaysville, Utah

REGIONAL MANAGER for METRO SALT LAKE, SUMMIT, TOOELE counties

Paula was a Contracting Officer (CO) and Program Manager of the Director of Business Development for the Department of Defense (DoD). She was a pioneer in the field of third party contracting for the government. Graduate of the U.S. Army Logistics Management College in cooperation with NCMA. Received the highest professional certification of Level III from the Department of Army and the Army Acquisition Corps.

801-538-8756 pkramer@utah.gov

60 East South Temple, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Utah

REGIONAL MANAGER for SOUTH SALT LAKE county

Alex spent nearly seven years in government contract management in the private sector, and spent the last 12 years at PTAC assisting businesses with government contracting strategies and how they can bid on contracts successfully. He has a degree in economics from Brigham Young University.

801-957-5357 aquayson@utah.gov

9750 South 300 West, Sandy, Utah

ALEX

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THOMAS GERKE JD, PMP, CP.APMP, PHIMS

REGIONAL MANAGER for JUAB, UTAH, WASATCH counties

Tom has worked on several high tech programs in both the public and private sectors. He has provided acquisition and life cycle management expertise for a variety of large and complex projects. Tom is PTAC’s Subject Matter Expert (SME) on cybersecurity.

Rita Vigor spent 18 years working in sales & marketing prior to working for Carbon County as the Economic Development & Tourism Director. She is now the PTAC Regional Outreach Manager for Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, San Juan & Uintah Counties 801-815-7463 tgerke@utah.gov 435-613-5198

REGIONAL MANAGER for CARBON, DAGGETT, DUCHESNE, EMERY, GRAND, SAN JUAN, UINTAH counties

rvigor@utah.gov

451 East 400 North, Price, Utah

REGIONAL MANAGER for BEAVER, IRON, GARFIELD counties

Greyson strives to help clients with anything entrepreneurial or small business related, whether that be through the Southern Utah University (SUU) Small Business Development Center (SBDC) or PTAC. Greyson is a graduate of SUU, having earned a BS in Business Marketing and Management in 2021.

435-865-8884

lgreysonjones@suu.edu

510 West 800 South, Cedar City, Utah

RITA VIGOR

MA

REGIONAL MANAGER for KANE, MILLARD, PIUTE, SANPETE, SEVIER, WASHINGTON, WAYNE counties

Josh formerly served as the program’s administrative support before his promotion into counseling clients full-time. He recently moved back down to his native Southern Utah to assist the clients there. Joshua earned his bachelor’s degree from SUU in 2012 and his master’s degree from USU in 2018.

435-674-8483 jwiggins@utah.gov

610 South Tech Ridge Drive, St. George, Utah

REGIONAL MANAGER for BEAVER, IRON, GARFIELD counties

Joni divides her time between her positions as the Director of the Southern Utah University (SUU) Business Center and Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and a PTAC regional manager. Joni has been with the SUU SBDC and PTAC since 1997. She earned both a BS in Business Administration and an MBA from SUU.

435-865-8884 andersonjoni@suu.edu

510 West 800 South, Cedar City, Utah

JOSHUA WIGGINS

JONI ANDERSON

MBA, CPP

STRATEGIC PLAN

FY2022 saw the PTAC program return to a greater degree of normalcy after COVID-19 with our first in person Symposium in more than two years. But virtual Outreach Workshops also remained popular, so PTAC went to a hybrid approach.

PTAC "Stayed the Course" by continuing to provide excellent customer service to clients from experienced and skilled counselors who are experts in government procurement.

FY2022 was also a year of change in federal contracting. In April 2022 the System for Award Management (SAM) ended the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) for registration and transitioned to a 12-character alphanumeric Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) assigned to all entities who register to do business with the federal government. This transition has caused many difficulties for new and existing clients. PTAC counselors continue to assist clients with these problems.

INITIATIVES

This year, PTAC placed an emphasis in the defense and aerospace industry, with three very successful events - two Outreach events with Hill Air Force Base in January 2022, which drew over 200 attendees and an Aerospace/Defense Industry Event in June 2022 which had over 360 attendees. This event was also highlighted by a Prime/Subcontractor Meet & Greet activity.

HIGHLIGHTS

PTAC hosted 86 various events, trainings, and webinars this year.

The PTAC Symposium is the program's major annual event with 250+ attendees. This event included:

• Remarks by Representative Blake Moore

• Matthew Schoonover, a government contracts attroney, as keynote speaker

• 40+ booth exhibitors and B2B Netowrking

PTAC also hosted the UT Aerospace and Defense Industry Event in June 2022. With 350+ attendees, this large event featured:

• Remarks by Governor Spencer Cox

• Speaker Andrew Busch, former Defense Logistics Agency Commander

• Speaker Frank DeMauro, VP Northrop Grumman

Other highlights include:

• How to do Business with VA and BLM July20,50attendees

• Client Meeting with Congressman Blake Moore June20,50attendees

• Veterans Business Conference May20,150attendees

28 (33%) of all PTAC events occurred in Rural Utah

OF

"A big part of finding our first win is due to the PTAC helping our company focus on SDVOSB set-asides, which gave us our best chances as a brand new company in the government contracting space. Also, the ability to work with a successful and experienced subcontractor and finding an excellent bid writer/project manager forthiscontractisanotherkeycomponenttothiswin. Thanksagain,Tom,forallthesupport!"

Samson Folau, CEO

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business.utah.gov/ptac 801-538-8775 ptac@utah.gov

Utah PTAC is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the state of Utah.