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You Will Learn How To
- Evaluate a requirements development process to establish mission-oriented capabilities and needs
- Supervise effective market research and establish options to enhance business strategies
- Evaluate a concept selection process and develop recommended courses of action
- Assess a technology development process for achieving an acquisition strategy
- Identify how acquisitions are affected by interpretation of business plans and intellectual property
- Recognize and solve problems that arise in developing agency-level and service-type contracts
Course Benefits Successful acquisitions begin by developing clear business and user requirements and progressing through concept development to performance-based contracts. This course provides the skills to evaluate complex acquisition projects, including requirements, concept, technology, and contract documentation, and identify potential performance issues and viable approaches to resolve those issues.
Who Should Attend Senior/Expert program and project managers, directors, sponsors and others seeking Level III FAC-P/PM certification.
Workshop Course Through an immersive, simulated case study, you gain practical experience evaluating the development and implementation of complex acquisition plans and documents. Activities include:
- Reviewing the prior acquisition documents
- Defining the requirements
- Analyzing market research
- Evaluating the concept selection process
- Monitoring the technology development process
- Developing contract requirements and support documentation
- Preparing and issuing contract solicitations
- Developing performance-based service agreements
Course U153 Content Reviewing Acquisition Management Principles
Recognizing acquisition authority
- Defining a project mission
- Addressing contract authority and oversight
Following acquisition principles
- Following basic contract principles
- Managing special acquisitions
- Following federal acquisition regulations
Enhancing the Requirements Process
Meeting the mission needs
- Defining mission-oriented agency capabilities
- Developing user scenarios using process maps
- Involving stakeholders
Valuing performance results
- Creating operational performance measures
- Identifying key questions for performance measures
- Addressing nonsystem specific approaches
Evaluating the Statement of Needs
- Selecting appropriate documents
- Reviewing GAO best practices
Creating Valuable Market Research
Focusing on pertinent research
- Evaluating technology maturity for acquisition planning
- Identifying business strategy
Clarifying research findings
- Addressing dual-use technologies
- Validating market research
Matching requirements to development
- Strategies for technology development
- Applying best practices
Focusing the Concept Selection Process
Making alternatives meaningful
- Delineating analysis of alternative concepts
- Identifying concept benefits
- Creating recommended courses of action
Selecting a successful concept
- Specifying performance measures
- Recommending a preferred system concept
Adhering to the Technology Development Process
Defining detailed requirements
- Delineating system requirements
- Preparing an R&D work statement
- Creating key performance parameters
- Conducting requirements trade-offs
Reporting to oversight organizations
- Documenting the acquisition program baseline
- Specifying the acquisition strategy/plan
- Addressing A-94 program assessment rating tool
- Addressing OMB 300 submittals
Preparing and Issuing the Solicitation
Preparing a comprehensive program specification
- Identifying appropriate use of statement of work (SOW)
- Identifying appropriate use of statement of objectives (SOO)
- Establishing appropriate evaluation criteria based on SOW/SOO
Assisting in planning solicitation activities
- Creating preaward policies
- Disseminating information and requirements
- Addressing presolicitation communication options
Gathering Requirements and Support Documentation
Planning preaward actions
- Outlining challenging contract clauses
- Addressing multiple-incentive contracts
- Avoiding SOW or SOO unintended nuances
- Analyzing complex CLIN structures
Identifying unclear provisions
- Aligning complex technical execution provisions
- Addressing complex contract funding provisions
- Specifying complex government funds provisions
Creating Performance-Based Service Agreements
- Negotiating a baseline of performance
- Evaluating management actions for acquisition services
- Creating a level of support at a cost consistent with funding
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