NCI Shady Grove Campus

While I worked for the National Cancer Institute, I managed the project to build a new campus in Shady Grove to house more than 2,500 employees in 574,000 square feet, including a structured parking facility for 1,980 vehicles. The administrative building features an 8,000 square feet data center, auditorium, conference center, fitness center, and cafeteria. I was the Project Executive for the lease acquisition, design and construction of the facilities, and relocation of staff.

This project presented several unique challenges, including:

• No facility this large had ever been acquired under a competitive lease process at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — let alone by one of the Institutes of NIH. I had to obtain delegated authority from the General Services Administration (GSA) through NIH to manage such an acquisition.

• My staff had to develop the Program of Requirements for the facility, the Request for Proposal, complete the technical evaluation, rank the proposals, hold interviews, and make a final recommendation to the GSA selection committee, of which I was a voting member.

• Along the way, GSA required that an additional Environmental Assessment be completed prior to completion of the competition. In order to keep the project on schedule, my staff completed the EA with the approval of NIH and GSA.

• A stand alone lease like this — separate from other GSA and NIH leases — required me to establish and manage all of the supporting services, including parking ( which required an additional stand-alone lease), shuttle bus services, food services, fitness center, conference room services, and armed-guard services.