5th Annual State Procurement and Contracting Law Seminar

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts sent this bulletin at 10/22/2013 01:48 PM CDT

5th Annual State Procurement and Contracting Law Seminar

Learn from statewide experts and participate in discussions on topics you need to know most — from ethics and contract protests to drafting specifications and awarding state contracts.

Attorneys will earn five and one fourth  Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits, including a half hour of ethics training. State purchasers and contract managers (CTP, CTPM and CTCM) will receive six continuing education hours.

No course materials will be printed. A link is provided below so you may print or save the course materials. 

Oct. 31, 2013, Capitol Extension Auditorium 

8:30 am to 3:45 pm 

Sign-in opens at 7:30 am.  

Online registration only!

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Time 

Topic 

Presenter(s) and Agency 

8:15-8:30 

Opening Remarks 

Martin Hubert, CPA 

8:30-9:15 

Legislative Update

Ron Pigott, CPA

9:15-9:45

HUB – Impact of Service Disabled Veterans

Rom Haghighi, CPA

9:45-10:15

Bonds and Insurance

Michelle Tooley and Stephen Vollbrecht, SORM

10:15-10:30

Break

 

10:30-11:00

Intellectual Property Licensing

Kari Moore and Cory Henrickson, TXDOT

11:00-11:30

Emergency Contracts

Cari Bernstein, TDEM

11:30-1:00

Lunch

 

1:00-1:30

Ethics

Missy Cary and Wes Ogilvie, OAG

1:30-2:00

TxSmartBuy – the Next Generation

Christine Hoang, TEA and Vince Sellers, CPA

2:00-2:30

Post Payment Auditing

Kenneth Besserman, CPA

2:30-2:45

Break

 

2:45-3:15

Open Records from the OAG Perspective

Amanda Crawford, OAG

3:15-3:45

Drafting Proprietary Justifications

David Duncan CPA

3:45

Close; please hand in your evaluations. Certificates will be e-mailed