News for the Acquisition Workforce

Visit FAI’s website to view training sessions for the federal acquisition workforce. Don’t wait to sign up; seats go fast! Training provided by FAI is free of charge to students or their agencies with this link.

This new online course will help you recognize cultural barriers to innovation and determine ways to address them. Also, you will identify authoritative sources that empower and/or encourage acquisition innovation and leverage resources and tools that support the use of innovative practices and technologies by acquisition teams. Register for this new online course in FAI CSOD and earn 1.5 CLPs.

Registration is now open for the 2023 DAU Acquisition Update. This two-day event is open to government civilians, military, contractors and industry workforces. View the event schedule and session descriptions for a detailed overview of the event. Attendees will be eligible to earn CLPs for participation. The post event survey must be completed to receive a participation certificate with those CLPs. Recordings and presentation slides will be posted on the event page post event as they become available. For questions concerning the event, send an email to: HSV.Acquisition.Update@dau.edu

Have you ever thought, "Wouldn't it to be great if I could include this as an optional factor?" Well, now you can! Watch PILCast episode 27 to learn how you can include oral presentations, product demonstrations or others as an optional evaluation factor within your solicitation. Optional evaluation factors have been used by several procurement teams and provide the flexibility to receive additional information from offerors if there isn't enough differentiation within the evaluation. You can watch all of the PILCasts here. Happy watching!

ASI Education, a new YouTube channel from ASI Government, LLC, is offering free content for government acquisition professionals. The channel provides managers with fun resources to educate their teams in an entertaining way. The channel also encourages federal acquisition workers to develop more meaningful relationships with industry, use relational contracting, and think critically to modernize acquisition practices. View the channel here!

FAI's online training course, FAC 076 Establishing Line Items in Contracts and Orders, has recently been updated and refreshed. In this course, you will learn how to structure line items on contracts and orders, and when applicable exceptions apply. Correctly formulated line items result in improved access to reliable and comprehensive data on federal procurement actions.

In June 2021 the President committed to increase Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB) contract dollars to 15% by 2025. FAI created three micro-learning videos with interagency experts. FAC 096: Equity in Procurement highlights Executive Orders 13985, 14035 and Office of Management and Budget Memos 22-03 and Strategies for Meeting and Exceeding SDB of 11% for FY 2022. This series of videos describes tools, programs and resources the acquisition community can use to increase spending to 11% by FY 2022 and 15% to SDBs by FY 2025. Register here and earn .5 CLPs after completing the post-assessment. 

Seats are filling fast for these exciting courses. Sign up soon!

CON 1200V - Contract Pre-Award (April 3 - April 14)

CON 1300V - Contract Award (April 5 - April 15)

CON 1200V - Contract Pre-Award (April 10 - April 21)

CON 1300V - Contract Award (April 19 - April 28)

CON 1200V - Contract Pre-Award (April 24 - May 5)

CON 2420V - Architect-Engineer Indirect Rates (May 1 - May 5)

CON 1300V - Contract Award (May 1 - May 10)

CON 1200V - Contract Pre-Award (May 1 - May 12) 

For the CON 1200V and CON1300V offering, if you anticipate completing the prerequisite courses prior to the start date of an offering, please sign up.