# Presentation: 284679

## Acquisition Certification and Warrants

- Carl Henn
- NIH Acquisition Career Coordinator
- 301 496-7110, ch24v@nih.gov

## The Basics

- Warrant
- Acquisition Certificate
-  Training

## Out with the Old

- HHS System
-  Level I = Simplified Acquisition
-  Level II = $500,000
- Level III = Unlimited
- Level IV = Even more unlimited
- Only good at HHS
- See http://oamp.od.nih.gov/Division/acp/AcqTraining/careerhandbook2.pdf

## In with the new

- Federal Acquisition Certificate in Contracting
- FAC-C
- Level I, II, III
- Valid at all civilian agencies
- Applies to all new warrants after Jan. 1, 2007(new means 1st warrant at agency)

## FAC-C Level I

- CON 100 Shaping Smart Business Arrangements
- CON 110 Mission Support Planning
- CON 111 Mission Strategy Execution
- CON 112 Mission Performance Assessment
- CON 120 Mission Focused Contracting
- 1 elective

## Elective

- “any training opportunity related to an employee’s job, necessary for career development or used for cross training”
- No less than 8 hours or training per class
- Approved by supervisor

## FAC-C Level I continued

- 1 year of contracting experience
- Education – 24 hours in business or Baccalaureate degree
- (folks are considered to meet the standard for the position they occupied on Jan. 1, 2000)
- $500,000, and up to $5 mill commercial

## FAC-C Level II

- CON 202 Intermediate Contracting = AP2, CF2, CA2
- CON 204 Intermediate Contract Pricing
- CON 210 Government Contract Law
- 2 Electives
- Changing to some online next year
- $10,000,000

## FAC-C Level III

- CON 353 Advanced Business Solutions for Mission Support
- 2 Electives
- 4 years contracting experience
- Both 24 hours in business and a 4 year degree
- Unlimited

## How do we get from here to there?

- Current warrants remain valid.
- October board uses old standards – January board uses new standards
- Staff will not be granted equivalent FAC-C certificates
- Apply for FAC-C when you qualify for the next level

## Skills Currency and Continuous Learning

- Skills Currency = 40 hours from Jan. 1, 2006 – Dec. 30, 2007
- Continuous Learning = 80 CLPs starting Jan. 1, 2008 – Dec. 31, 2009
- CLP = Continuous Learning Points = hours with rules

## Training Sources

- HHS University – learning.hhs.gov
- AWTF Free training –http://oamp.od.nih.gov/Division/acp/AcqTraining/AWTFTraining.asp
- Defense Acquisition University –www.dau.mil
- Federal Acquisition Institute –
-    www.fai.gov
- Private vendors

## Refresher training for POs

- 40 hours from Jan. 1, 2006 – Dec. 31, 2007, related to Project management or acquisition
- 80 CLPs every two years starting Jan. 1, 2008.  Must be work related.

## Simplified Acquisition Certification 

- Old Level 1 remains valid
- Replaced by Simplified Acquisition Certificate A and B.
- Authority over $3000 requires a warrant.

## Simplified Acquisition Certificate - A 

- SAC-A
- Basic Simplified Acquisition or CON 237
- Advanced Simplified Acquisition or Appropriation Law
- Green Purchasing
- One year of acquisition experience, 6 months in simplified acquisition
- Warrants up to $25,000

## Simplified Acquisition Certificate – B 

- SAC-B
- All the SAC-A classes plus CON 100 and CON 111
- Allows warrant up to $100,000

## Questions?