Acquisition Workforce Professionalism

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Acquisition Workforce Professionalism

• Department of the Interior
• Business Conference
• May 2006

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Background

• Acquisition identified as high risk by GAO and
• DOI-OIG
• Governmentwide Acquisition 400 Billion
• Interior Acquisition 4 Billion
• Congressional reaction Professionalize
  Acquisition Workforce
• OMB Policy Letters
• Acquisition
• Internal Controls

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Benefits

• Governmentwide
• Consistent and current training
• Develop business managers
• Improve customer service
• Departmentwide
• Improve assurance of A-123 compliance
• FBMS Standardization
• Improve partnership collaboration Wildland
  Fire, Emergency response Teams, Service 1st
  initiative

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Benefits to Employees

• More opportunities to qualify for jobs
• Equalize the workforce
• Equalize the core competencies and curriculum
• More flexible workforce
• Leverage training development dollars
• Leverage training opportunities

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Who/What

• Contracting Officer Representatives - new
  training/maintenance requirements
• After January 2007, all new contracting officers
  and all contracting officers with unlimited
  warrants must be certified
• All contracting officers must be certified
• All GS-13 and above procurement/price analysts
  and all supervisors of acquisition offices must
  be certified
• Program and Project Managers certification
  program

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Stovepipes

• Legacy Legacy New
• Acquisition Planning I or CON 101 or CON
  100
• Contract Formation I
  CON 110
• Contract Admin I CON 111
• CON 112
• Price Analysis or CON 104 CON 120
• Cost Analysis
• Negotiation
• CON 100 only if taking CON 110, 111, 112 and 120

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Stovepipes continued

• Legacy Legacy New
• Acquisition Planning II or CON 202 or CON
  214
• Contract Formation II CON 215
• Contract Administration II CON 216
• CON 217
• CON 218
• Government Contract Law (CON 210)
• Intermediate Contract Pricing (CON 204)

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Level II Curriculum Change

• CON 214 Business Decisions for Contracting
• Distance Learning 24 hrs in 30 days
• CON 215 Intermediate Contracting for Mission
  Support
• 8 days in classroom
• CON 216 Legal Considerations in Contracting
• 30 hours in 30 days
• CON 217 Cost Analysis and Negotiation Techniques
• 40 hrs in 30 days
• CON 218 Advanced Contracting for Mission Support
• 9.5 days in classroom

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Level II Curriculum

• Blend of distance and classroom learning
• Distance learning courses for new knowledge
• Classroom courses will have case-based to develop
  critical thinking, technical and business skills
• Supervisors provide ample time for employees to
  complete on-line training
• Pilots are complete
• Transition starting for civilian agency training
  providers
• Transition complete in FY 2007

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FAI Sponsored Training Classes

• Tuition costs prepaid by Acquisition Workforce
  Training Fund
• Augment not replace training budgets
• BMRA, ESI and MCI teaching DAU materials/tests
• No Money directly to agencies
• Allotments based on surveys
• Survey in May for FY 07 training needs
• Survey in October for FY 08 training needs

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AWTF FAI Registration Process

• Bureau Training Coordinators collect registration
  forms/confirm eligibility and prioritize
• Point of Contact for registration is Acquisition
  Career Manager prioritize Interior Needs,
  balance bureau requests, advocate for additional
  slots
• Reschedule or cancel ASAP w/FAI
• CON 120 (soon) and CON 353 (eventually)
• More classes and locations in FY07
• Performance Based Services Acquisition
• Separate from DAU training but AWTF money
• Rescheduling/cancellations w/ BTCs/ACM

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Federal Acquisition Certification Contracting
(FAC-C)

• Grandfather Education only (1/1/00) 1102, 1105,
  warrant holders
• Legacy Workforce Training Equivalencies Matrix
  on-line soon
• Civilian Agency-wide consistency and mutual
  recognition
• Must have training Certificates or letter from
  provider
• FAI general program guidance
• Program administered by agency
• 80 CLPs every 2 years by 10/1/07

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Additional Info

• Acquisition Career Manual
• COR, Warrants, FAC-C, ACMIS, etc
• Acquisition Career Management Information System
  ACMIS
• Changing to DoD platform soon
• Bureau ACMIS coordinators
• Implement w/in 6 months of availability
• Manuals/implementation strategy complete