| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | General Session (Ballroom)
Teresa Takai, Director of the Michigan Department of Information Technology, serving as the state's Chief Information Officer
Keynote Speaker Presentation
IT Procurement Resources Flyer |
| 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | General Session Panel: Business Risk in State and Local Contracting (Ballroom)
Moderator: David Gragan, Managing Director, Government Procurement, Silver Oaks Solutions Panelists: Richard Pennington, Director, Division of Finance and Procurement, State of Colorado Ray Jensen, Associate VP, Administration (Purchasing and Business Servies), Arizona State University Bruce Feerer, Deputy Executive Officer, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. | Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall |
| Track Sessions | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | 3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
| Contract Basics | 104
Basics of Negotiation | Networking Lunch in Exhibit Hall | 105
Cause-Based Contracting | 106
Solicitations and Evaluation Criteria: Submissions and Debriefings | Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall | 107
Contract Pricing Principles |
| Federal Government Contracting | 204
VA Service Contract Initiatives | 205
Recent Changes
to FAR and CAS Affecting Government Contract Costs | 206
OCI Trends
and Mitigation Techniques | 207
The Only Thing Permanent Is Change |
| Defense Contracting | 304
Observations On Iraqi Contracting From One Who's Been There | 305
Contracting and Subcontracting for Armed Security Services | 306
Shoulder-to-Shoulder Contracting | 307
COTR Responsibilities During Conflict |
| Alternate Disputes Resolution | 404
Mock Mediation: All You Ever Wanted to Know!-Part 1 | 405
Creating an Effective Dispute Resolution Clause-Rules-of-the-Road
in Drafting an Arbitration Clause, Part 1 | 406
Creating an Effective Dispute Resolution Clause- Rules-of-the-Road in Drafting an Arbitration Clause, Part 2 | 407
Mock Mediation: All You Ever Wanted to Know!-Part 2 |
| Customer Relations/Capture Management | 504
From Bid to Contract-Avoiding the Pitfalls | 505
Role of Contracts in the Capture Process | 506
What Makes a Great Proposal: The View from Both Sides | 507
Homerun Customer Service
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| The Changing Role of the Contract Manager | 604
Joint Ventures:
The Contracts Professional as Business Manager and Consultant | 605
Pushing the Performance Envelope | 606
Valley of the
Sun Group (DOD/Industry Partnering) | 607
An Approach to Assessing Contract Management Maturity |
| Small Business | 704
Ways Large Businesses Can Make the Grade
in Small Business Utilization | 705
Reconciling
Small Business Contracting Programs | 706
Breaking Into the Federal Marketplace | 707
Not the Why, but the How: Small Business Programs/ Nuts and Bolts |
| Service Contracting | 804
Writing Performance Criteria for Professional Services | 805
Air Force Performance-Based Service Acquisitions and Quality Assurance Program | 806
Performance-based Service Acquisition Engagements | 807
T&M / Labor Hour Contracts: The High-Risk, High-Priced Alternative |
| State & Local Contracting | 904
Procurement Transformation in Public Acquisition | 905
Acquisition Support to Emergency Management | 906
Contracting for
a Large, Solar Energy Project | 907
Tapping into the State
& Local Government Market Through Cooperative Purchasing
& the 1122 Program |
| GSA Contracting | 1004
The GSA Schedule Contract T's & C's: Comply or Die | 1005
The Rules Are Changing: Are you Prepared to Survive your GSA IFF Audit? | 1006
Scope Issues Under GSA Contracts | 1007
GSA Schedules: Management and Compliance |
| Finance & Accounting | 1104
Estimating Principles for Preparing Winning Proposals | 1105
Sarbanes-Oxley: Implications for Government Contracting | 1106
Performance-
Based Payments | 1107
International Financing |
| Executive | 1204
Performance-Based Acquisition: What Executives Need
to Know | 1205
The Role of Procurement in Organizational Transformation | 1206
What I've Learned | 1207
Spend Management |
| 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Exhibit Hall Closed at 4:30 p.m. today, not open on Wednesday |
