# Presentation: 136295

## Education (Level Ia, Ib and Green Purchasing)

- Carl Henn
- _[http://oamp.od.nih.gov/acp/acp.html](http://oamp.od.nih.gov/acp/acp.html)_
- ch24v@nih.gov

## Quote about Education

- We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge. ~ Rutherford Rogers

## Second Quote

- If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. ~ Derek Bok

## Acquisition Certification

- Is not a warrant or delegation of authority
- Is not required for promotion by FAR, HHSAR or personnel regs
- May be required for promotion by your office
- Requires ongoing training

## Old Level I

- Sufficient for delegation up to $100,000
- Requires  1 year of experience in acquisition, 6 months in simplified acquisition.
- Contract Formation I and Acquisition Planning II
- Satisfactory Performance Rating

## New Handbook – Level Ia and Ib

- I(a) = $25,000,  I(b) = $100,000
- Old Level I can be upgraded to new I(b) by taking the remaining classes and requesting new certificate

## Level I(a)

- Required for authority above the micropurchase threshold.
- Sufficient for up to $25,000 per transaction or up to maximum threshold on Federal Supply Schedule Blanket Purchase Agreements, not to exceed $1,000,000.

## Level I(b)

- Sufficient for authority up to $100,000 or up to the maximum threshold on Federal Supply Schedule BPAs not to exceed $1,000,000, and up to $5,000,000 on commercial items as described in FAR 13.5

## Requirements for Level I(a)

- One year of experience in Acquisition,     six months in simplified acquisition
- Basic Simplified Acquisition
- Advanced Simplified Acquisition
- Green Purchasing
- Satisfactory Performance Rating
- Competency Achievement (Form K-2)

## Requirements for Level I(b)

- Meet Level I(a) requirements
- Introduction to Contracting
- Acquisition Planning I

## Skills Currency

- 1102s must have 40 hours every 2 years (may soon be 40 every year)
- 1105s and 1106s 24 hours every 2 years
- Purchase Card holders refresher training every 2 years
- Green Purchasing every 2 years

## Skills Currency

- Broadly defined – not limited to acquisition training
- Includes skills relevant to your job
- Can include computer training, management training, personal skill development.
- Does not include ethics training or retirement training.

## Green Purchasing

- Purchasing of recycled content products, energy-efficient products and renewable energy technologies, biobased products, environmentally preferable products and services, and non-ozone depleting substances.

## Green Purchasing

- Required for all purchase card holders and all card approving officials.
- Required for everyone with acquisition certification at Levels I, II, III and IV.
- Complete by December 31, 2005
- Update required every 2 years.
- Requirement of multiple sources.

## 10/22/03

- “Dear Ms. Sowada,
- I am very happy that the SERT team is trying to help save energy. By
- being in the SERT, I have learned the importance of recycling. Recycling
- saves energy and reduces pollution. Plastic bottles, cans, etc., should be
- recycled because they can be used again. The reason why we should
- recycle things is that when something is made, chemicals are used. The
- waste chemicals are disposed into water bodies. By that, chemicals are
- mixed with water and mammals like fish that live in water die. The reason
- to recycle paper is because paper is made out of wood. Wood is a product
- of trees and if we waste paper, trees are cut and the wildlife in forests
- don't have their usual habitat. We should use sunlight for light because
- we shouldn't waste electricity. These are what I learned about recycling.”
- From
- Swathi Jayavel, 5th Grade
- Beall Elementary School, Rockville MD

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## Green Purchasing

- Online at _[www.golearn.gov](http://www.golearn.gov/)_
- In person at Lister Hill on April 25, RKL2 on May 25, NSC on June 30
- 9:00 to 10:00 Purchase Card
- 10:00 to 12:00 Contract Staff
- Via videoarchive shortly after April 25
- See http://oamp.od.nih.gov/acp/acp.html

## 1102 Qualification Standards

- To enter series either 4 year degree or 24 semester hours in business
- To be promoted to 13 or higher, both 4 year degree and 24 semester hours in business

## Level II Certification

- Sufficient for authority up to $500,000
- 1102s skip Level I
- 2 years General Acquisition experience (experience like an 1102)
- 280 hours of training

## Level II classes

- Introduction to Contracting
- Acquisition Planning I
- Contract Formation I
- Cost Analysis
- Price Analysis
- Federal Contract Negotiations Techniques
- Contract Administration I

## Questions?