Guest lecture strategy for 4th year FM students at Breda University of Applied Sciences, Academy for Hotel and Facility Management. Students are introduced to FM and hospitality issues during military out-of-area operations in Afghanistan, Kandahar Airfield

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4. Kandahar Airfield:
FM Strategy gone haywire
Breda University of Applied Sciences
Ian van der Pool MFM

5. Programme
• History KAF
• Then - 2007
• Transition: OEF -> ISAF
– control
– finance
– procurement & contractor management
– future
• ‘Now’ – 2010
– BOHICA
FM Strategy gone haywire – 26 september 2011

6. Taliban Last Stand (TLS)
• History KAF
• Then - 2007
• Transition: OEF -> ISAF
– control
– finance
– procurement & contractor management
– future
• ‘Now’ – 2010
– BOHICA
FM Strategy gone haywire – 26 september 2011

9. Kandahar Airfield
• built with US aid during sixties
• damaged during war with USSR 1979-1989
• 9/11 War on Terrorism
• damaged during OEF, october 2001
• main US base till 1/8/2007

10. 2004
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11. 2007
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13. ‘Doe eens even normaal man!’

14. Strategy: OEF -> ISAF
• From US led to NATO led
• Issues
• control
• finance
• procurement &
contractor management
• future developments KAF

15. Control
• rule of law
• military vs. civilians
KAF Tenants Charter
‘gentlemen’s agreement’

16. Finance
•NATO common funded
stakeholders
• Stakeholder Nations
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
the Netherlands (6,5 M€)
(France 2008)

17. Canada
France
Netherlands
United
Kingdom
United States
of America
JFCBS
NATO
5 Stakeholder Nations
Sponsor embedded nations for NATO
payment purposes and information
flow
COMKAF leads Stakeholders through
a Senior Council of their National
Reps
Some nations are not sponsored and
have individual payment
arrangements with NAMSA
New Zealand
Australia
Bulgaria
Belgium
Estonia
Czech Rep
Romania
Germany
Lithuania
Denmark
Poland
Slovakia
UAE
Rep of Macedonia
Mongolia
Jordan
Jordan

18. Procurement &
Contractor management
• ‘cost plus’ -> ‘fixed price’
• NAMSA in new role
• COMKAF as demand manager
• service levels?
• role sponsoring nations

19. Future developments KAF
estimated growth: max. 12.500

20. 2010
KAF is a city in its own right. At around
25,000 inhabitants, it is comparable in
density to Hermosa Beach, California;
Warwick, England; Voorschoten, The
Netherlands, or Bolton, Ontario
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peak 30.000 pax
> 250.000 meals/week
> 42 nationalities
> 10 million liter nonpotable water/week
> 4.000 contractors
> 200 a/c
> 750 a/c movements/day
> 70M€ mil. Budget/year
> 1.500 Afghans/day
> 500 trucks / day
> 650 km² GDA

21. Issues
• Food
• Camp utilities (waste water treatment & waste mngt
• Water production and distribution
• Contractor provided Construction Capability
• Over ambitious project delivery programme / Lack of
prioritisation (all Priority 1)
• Funding responsiveness to meet urgent demands or
changing operational priorities
• Quality -Increasingly important to user and funder
• Cost –Nations’ funding fatigue

25. Clear?

26. Contact info
FacMan01
www.bis.nl/IFMA
pool.i@nhtv.nl
ihp@visionfm.nl
voorzitter@fmn.nl