Outreach Corner
New outreach services have already benefited!
- Fauquier County
- Isle of Wight - strategic planning
- Wise County privatizing their power waste collection
The Commonwealth Competition Council is pleased to announce that it has a unique opportunity for all county, city and town governments.
Virginia is vibrant with activities devoted to applying commercial practices. One has only to review the survey on our web page to realize the potential we have to benchmark the best practices within our own state. Every county, city and town has partnering, outsourcing and contracting methods complementing those at the state level. Each such method can be enhanced by applying the advancements, which others have made.
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benchmarking efforts are enhanced with the recent arrival
of our new Outreach Coordinator, Dr. Marshall H. Bailey,
III. On loan from the U. S. Department of Defense, Dr. Bailey is on a 15-month assignment. In addition to his doctorate in Public Policy, he has graduate degrees in public administration, business administration and national security management. |
Up until now, he has worked with the Defense Logistics Agency, which has been on the forefront in adapting commercial practices to logistics. These include use of fee-for-service business practices; prime vendor contracts for direct delivery and use of reverse logistics techniques to recycle surpluses.
Dr. Bailey is well suited for the position of Outreach Coordinator. While a member of the Senior Executive Service in Defense Logistics Agency, he oversaw all supply chain functions such as contracting, quality assurance, engineering and item management.
Recently he served as the senior civilian responsible for the $5 billion defense energy business. While there, he oversaw implementation of programs to competitively procure electricity and to privatize defense power plants.
Just prior to coming to the Competition Council, Dr. Bailey wore two hats at once. He was Director of the Document Automation and Production Service (DAPS) and Director of DLA Support Services (DSS). In DAPS, Dr. Bailey programmed the competitive outsourcing of all its 240 domestic production sites. DAPS's statement of work is now "on the street" for bids. His DSS job covered many staff functions which enabled him to head the development of a corporate marketing program; a "green" attribute catalog for commercial products; and a balanced scorecard to measure customer support levels for all the agency's $20 billion business.
The Outreach Coordinator's activities will embrace many groups. He initially contacted the Virginia Association of Counties and the Virginia Municipal League to explore ways to cross-benchmark commercial activities. He has already developed plans to work indept with several local governments starting with a four-month stint with Fauquier County. We can expect much activity and information from this venture over the coming months.