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**Descriptions of required courses.** The descriptions below list the
key topics that should be covered during the training.

**Purchasing Fundamental**s -- Basics of commercial purchasing: legal
agency and contracts; specifications and quality issues; supplier
selection and managing supplier relationships; fundamentals of inventory
and logistics management; economic order quantities; transportation and
third party logistics; performance measurement.

**BPA BPI Introduction** -- Define the legal authorities and origin of
the Bonneville Purchasing Instructions; policy manual organization and
content; key concepts; application of commercial purchase practices.

**Strategic Sourcing** -- Training that focuses on market analysis and
trends, spend analysis, total cost of ownership, contract consolidation,
supplier development; continuous process improvement.

Introduction to Federal Contracting -- Entry-level course: satisfy
customer relevant to quality, timeliness, and cost considerations;
competent contractors; business integrity; organizational roles and
responsibilities of governmental bodies; basic statutes and regulations;
acquisition roles and responsibilities; acquisition planning; contract
formation; and administration.

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# Contract Formation (basic or entry level) -- Pre-award activities: preparing a solicitation; processing proposals and technical evaluations; essentials of cost/price evaluations; discussions and negotiations with offeror(s); contractor responsibility; award documentation preparation; protests; contract administration planning.

**Contract Administration (basic or entry level)** -- Essential
post-award activities: roles and responsibilities of CO, COR, and COTR;
post award orientation; subcontracting issues; performance monitoring
and quality assurance; performance schedule and delays; exercising
options; formal remedies; disputes and claims; financial issues of
invoice receipt and processing, financing terms, and assignments and
securities.

**Government Contract Law** -- Legal matters in federal contracting:
elements of binding contract; law of agency; basic statutes,
regulations; case and administrative law relevant to federal
acquisitions; sources of commercial terms and conditions; recognize and
mitigate for situations that pose legal liability.

**Contract Types** -- Methods of pricing and ordering: fixed price, cost
reimbursement, and incentive contracts; indefinite delivery, time and
materials, and labor hour contracts; letter contracts; option contracts;
ordering agreements.

**Cost/Price Analysis** -- Elements of Best Buy: market research for
price analysis; price competition and comparisons; obtaining offeror
information for analysis; elements of cost analysis including direct and
indirect costs; cost realism; cost principles of allowability,
allocability, and reasonableness; profit or fee analysts; preparing
negotiation positions.

**Negotiations --** Techniques for business negotiations: concepts,
approaches, strategies; determine objectives, recognize desireable
outcomes; assess opposing interests

**Contract Administration (advanced)** -- Advanced post-award
activities: modifications and unpriced actions; performance issues and
remedial actions; payments and financing; subcontract management;
property administration; socio-economic and related terms and
conditions; terminations; claims, disputes; closeout.

**Advanced Contract Law** -- Advanced legal issues in federal
contracting: protests; personal and intellectual property, labor,
social, economic, and environmental concerns; fraud; inspection,
delivery, acceptance, and warranties; disputes and terminations

**Intermediate/Advanced Contract Pricing** -- Advanced contract cost and
pricing issues: reviewing contractor pricing and accounting practices;
evaluating indirect costs; price indexes and economic price adjustments;
pricing termination settlements; recognizing and adjusting for defective
pricing; equitable adjustments and settlements; profit and fee analysis;
contract financing methods; progress payments.