Historical Story Time - How ASC Started
Dan Everest and Steve Blancq decided to start ASC one day in 1991 in Canberra, Australia, after work in a pub named Olin’s. As US Navy Industrial Engineers working for NAVFAC and based out of Hawaii, they were helping the Australians outsource the Ops & Maintenance of Harold E. Holt, a US Navy base in the NW Cape of Australia. Here the Aussies were going to take over possession of the Base from the US, as well as take over its management from the US Navy. Having no major Acquisition experience of major BOS contracts, the US State Department had volunteered the US Navy (Dan and Steve) to lead the Australian acquisition effort. With deep experience innovating major USN BOS contract Acquisitions at Diego Garcia (BIOT), Midway Island, Johnston Atoll, and Singapore, Dan and Steve brought to Australia their own Tabular Format PWS templates as well as their ground-breaking Tabular Format Requirement/Resource/Costing/Pricing spreadsheet solution. These innovations were a direct resu...