Government Specifics II
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Course Length:
3 Days
Course Description:
This course covers key project management skills required in government projects: Acquisition strategies, pre-award actions, source selection, OMB Circular A-123 compliance, and strategic sourcing.
Who Should Attend:
This course is specifically developed to support Project Managers who need to meet the Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Management (FAC-P/PM) program core training requirements.
Benefits of Attendance:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Develop an overall strategy for managing the acquisition, coordination, and development of the acquisition strategy to include socioeconomic considerations
- Identify key features in terms of pre-award actions required by acquisition planning (FAR Subpart 7.1)
- Formulate the key features of a comprehensive program/project specification and requirements statement
- Identify and develop source selection criteria, including risk analysis method (FAR Part 15.3)
- Identify and track contract performance and administrative actions
- Conduct financial planning and execution reviews
- Develop program/project plans in accordance with Management’s Responsibility for Internal Control (OMB Circular A-123) and Capital Asset Planning (OMB exhibit 300)
- Utilize strategic sourcing when building and finalizing requirements across the program/project
Prerequisites:
Students should have taken the Government Specifics I course.
Course Outline:
- Preparing a Plan for Total Life Cycle Management
- Addressing phased inputs, outputs, and deliverables
- Internal and External project technical reviews
- Audits
- Tradeoffs
- Managing modifications
- Cycle-time reduction techniques
- Risk and Opportunity Management
- Planning identification and analysis of risks
- Risk handling
- Risk monitoring
- Analyzing risk events
- Reporting status
- Finding critical risk nodes
- Schedule related risk analysis
- Requirementss Development
- Structuring the process for working with users
- Defining and refining needs
- Trade-off and constraints
- Developing a Process for Selecting a Design Solution
- Translating requirements into alternative designs
- Selecting final design solutions
- Alternative design solutions
- Contract Approach
- Integrating personal through a comprehensive plan
- Business partnerships
- Structuring competition
- Socio-economic issues
- Terms & conditions
- Contract types & selection
- Ensuring contractor comprehension
- FAR Subpart 7.1
- Continuity, coordination, & interfaces
- Multiple incentive structures
- Complex technical executions
- Executing contract funding
- Preparing and Issuing Solicitations
- Formulating key features
- Pre-award policies
- Publicizing contract actions
- Simplified Acquisition Procedures
- Sealed Bidding
- Perform Source Selection
- Source selection criteria
- Formulating a plan to allow best value selection
- Structuring the source selection process with a source selection evaluation



