U.S. Federal Contracting Fundamentals: Spring 2024
This certificate course focuses on federal contracting. Participants receive 10 hours of live, multi-day, virtual learning. Walk away with a better understanding and a digital badge to post on LinkedIn. Multi-Day | Live Virtual Training | 10.0 CPE/CLP | $936 member | $1194 non-member
Description:
The U.S. government acquisition landscape is full of complexities, rules, and nuances. Whether you are new or seeking a refresher, this certificate will provide a solid foundation and framework for understanding the context of all the requirements, forms, and systems to navigate as well as insight into how the process really works!
Notices:
- This is a 4-day virtual event and you must attend all days to receive credit
- Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM each day
Who should attend?
Ideal candidates for this course include:
- Current or prospective sellers (contractors or subcontractors) to the U.S. government seeking to understand the unique U.S. federal acquisition landscape
- Contracting professionals working for organizations that sell to the U.S. federal government
- New or prospective contract management professionals and students
- Anyone seeking an understanding of U.S. federal acquisitions
Schedule: 2:00 - 4:30 pm ET, Monday May 6 - Thursday May 9, 2024
- Day 1: Monday, May 6: US Federal Acquisition System and Rules
- Compliance environment
- Federal Acquisition Regulation overview and supplements
- Federal acquisition systems
- Uniform Commercial Contract
- Day 2: Tuesday, May 7: How U.S. Federal Contracts are Made
- Contract lifecycle: contract planning to award
- Source selection
- What’s negotiable and what’s not
- Contract types
- Day 3: Wednesday, May 8: U.S. Federal Cost and Price Analysis
- Fair and reasonable pricing
- Cost elements, cost principles and overhead costs
- Pricing and accounting requirements
- Day 4: Thursday, May 9: Hot Topics in U.S. Federal Contracting
- Small business utilization
- Risk management
- Supply chain management
- Cybersecurity
- Competition
- Buy American
- And more!
Credits:
Cost:
- $936 member / $1194 non-member
- Membership + Certificate Course Bundle: $1106
- Take advantage of this bundle and save on course fees and become a member of NCMA
- Membership will activate after the course.
Course Structure:
- The program takes place over four days for 2.5 hours each day on Zoom.
- At the end of the program, you will receive a certificate of completion and a digital badge you can share on LinkedIn and elsewhere.
- Attendance at all four sessions is required to receive the Certificate of Completion and the digital badge.
Course Access:
Connectivity Requirements:
- This training is conducted through My Virtual Training and presented via Zoom.
- To have all the zoom features available during the live virtual training, we recommend using the most up-to-date version of Zoom for your system.
- System Requirements can be found here.