How to Manage Federal Contracts

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Overview

This course provides project managers useful tools and techniques to ensure performance-based contracts are well written and managed through monitoring, tracking, and reporting. The fundamentals of project management are provided as a baseline for federal contract management. Federal contract managers will be able to solve complex contracting issues dealing with types and forms of contracts, comparisons between contract vehicles, contract administration, contract modifications, compliance, subcontracting, price estimating and adjustments, financing and payment, procurement integrity, reporting to management, and managing difficult situations. Enhance your skills with our hands-on workshop.

Topics

• Contract administration planning, including types and forms of contracts and contract vehicles
• Competition requirements under Federal Supply Schedule contracts
• Procurement integrity, ethics, false claims, organizational conflicts of interest, and risks
• Source selection evaluation boards, best value, low cost/technical trade-off, negotiation, and award documentation
• Performance-based contracting, writing requirements, performance-based budgeting, contractor incentives, and evaluation
• Fundamentals in project management to effectively manage federal acquisitions
• Contract modifications, terminations for convenience, and compliance
• Small-business subcontracting and subcontract management
• Fair pricing, billing, and contract monitoring and tracking

Learn How To...

• Use basic project management tools and techniques to manage your project with a focus on federal acquisitions, including the triple constraint (time, cost, and scope), work breakdown structure, project documentation, life cycle costs, identifying and managing risks, Earned Value Management, monitoring and reporting, and project closeout
• Solve complex contract administration issues and avoid contracting pitfalls
• Make trade-off decisions between best value and low-cost, technically acceptable bids
• Understand procurement rules and regulations, especially legal risks, conflicts, and ethics
• Monitor costs and milestones in a performance-based contracting environment and provide useful past performance
• Interpret contracts and understand labor issues, contract compliance, claims issues, protests, and intellectual property
• Establish fair and reasonable prices

What Participants Say

As a result of this seminar, I am better able to maintain and modify . . . and analyze contracts.
—Wyvette Johnson, ANSER

Dates & Locations

The $1095 registration fee includes light refreshments and course materials. View our registration policies.

Hours

8:30 AM–3:30 PM both days
Breakfast and registration open at 8:00 AM.

This course is recommended for 11 Continuing Legal Education credits (CLEs) as well as Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) toward FAC-C requirements. It also offers 11 Contract Management Education (CME) units, and is approved by NCMA for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit in support of certification and recertification. A Federal Contracting Institute® certificate of completion will be provided to all attendees upon conclusion of the class.