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Target Audience: Contracting Officer's Representatives (CORs)

Personnel responsible for the administrative, financial, or performance monitoring of grant recipients, including grants management specialists, grants officials, project officers, and agreement technical representatives will benefit from this course.

Personnel responsible for the administrative, financial, or performance monitoring of grant recipients, including grants management specialists, grants officials, project officers, and agreement technical representatives will benefit from this course.

This course provides complete and comprehensive coverage on source selection principles and processes. The forty-hour format, using lecture, discussion, and exercises, has been designed to teach the competencies required of contract specialists in the FAI Contract Specialist Training Blueprint, and complies with FAI guidelines. The course highlights the development of source selection plan from the inception of the acquisition through award, and how the source selection process functions to obtain best value in specific types of acquisitions.

Learn how to write performance based work states that tell contractors what to do, Not how to do it. This is the guidance according to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 37, which requires agencies to maximize the use of performance-based methods when contracting. You will determine requirements by developing high-level objectives, tasks, and performance standards. You will develop a performance work statement and quality assurance surveillance plan using the Acquisition Requirements Roadmap Tool (ARRT), and apply your learning to intensive exercises and activities.

Learn about the simplified acquisition procedures and it's advantages (reduce administrative costs, promote contracting efficiency, and avoid unnecessary burdens for agencies and contractors). Understand the applicable policies and laws outlined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 and other related parts. You will learn the roles and responsibilities of those who participate in the process, how to buy through the GSA Federal Supply Schedule, ethical considerations, and other intricacies of simplified acquisition procedures.

This course provides complete and comprehensive coverage on source selection principles and processes. The forty-hour format, using lecture, discussion, and exercises, has been designed to teach the competencies required of contract specialists in the FAI Contract Specialist Training Blueprint, and complies with FAI guidelines. The course highlights the development of source selection plan from the inception of the acquisition through award, and how the source selection process functions to obtain best value in specific types of acquisitions.

Summary:

Uncertainty can wreak havoc on employees’ feelings of resilience and their ability to manage their emotions positively and proactively. With this succinct virtual or classroom course, we will teach you how to tackle the challenges of change and stress. You will identify the necessary function of resilience in a changing work environment and evaluate strategies to problem solve effectively.

Learning Objectives:

·Learn how to bounce back from adversity.

Summary:

Uncertainty can wreak havoc on employees’ feelings of resilience and their ability to manage their emotions positively and proactively. With this succinct virtual or classroom course, we will teach you how to tackle the challenges of change and stress. You will identify the necessary function of resilience in a changing work environment and evaluate strategies to problem solve effectively.

Learning Objectives:

·Learn how to bounce back from adversity.

This introductory course provides a knowledge framework for students to learn more in-depth information about the grant process, setting the stage for specialization in any aspect of the process. Students gain a basic, working knowledge of the assistance process from pre-award through closeout. This includes interactive discussion and case studies on administrative and program requirements, budget and program performance reporting, and extensions.