# Presentation: 720113

##      WELCOME to FAI/DAU

**INDUSTRY DAY**
**October 13, 2004**

## Federal Acquisition Institute Overview of Acquisition Workforce Training FundIndustry DayOctober 13, 2004

**Gloria M. Sochon**
**Director**

## FAI Fundamentals

**FAI Statute, Section 405(d)(5) – specifies the authority and function of FAI as well as enumerating specific FAI functions.**
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**Mission**
**To foster and promote the development of a professional acquisition workforce into effective business leaders**
**Strategic Goals**** **
**Ensure Exceptional Training**
**Provide Compelling Research**
**Improve Acquisition Workforce Management**

**Notes:**
Direct conversion to contractor-performed services Apr 2003
 Ensure exceptional training
Improve training through monitoring & assessment
Increase workforce knowledge & skills
Provide compelling research
Collect & maintain accurate data on workforce
Improve the study selection process 
Promote a professional acquisition workforce
Develop career path & workforce competencies
Increase appeal of acquisition profession
Workforce management - next slide

Note statutory mission
Note move to single, Federal standard - coordination with DOD

## Stakeholders

**Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and the FAI Board of Directors**
**General Services Administration (GSA)**
**Chief Acquisition Officers Council (CAOC) **
**Defense Acquisition University (DAU)**
**Joint training development**
**Collaboration on career management initiatives**
**SRA International, Inc. and sub-contractors**

## Current FAI Initiatives

**Professional Development**
**Training development and delivery**
**Career Management Tools**
**Research**
**Competency reports**
**Annual Report on the Federal Acquisition Workforce**
**Events**
**Federal Acquisition Conference & Expo (FACE)**
**Acquisition Learning Seminars**
**Outreach**
**Newsletter**
**Website**
**Exhibit booths**

## Partnership with DAU

**Partnering with DAU**
**Leveraging resources**
**Developing common career development tools**
**Current initiatives**
**Common competencies**
**Common training for contracting personnel**
**Coordinated certification programs**

## Acquisition Workforce Training Fund (AWTF)

**Established by the Services Acquisition Reform Act (SARA) of 2003**
**Purpose: To ensure the federal acquisition workforce **
**Adapts to fundamental changes in the nature of federal acquisition**
**Acquires new skills & perspectives to contribute effectively in the changing environment**

## AWTF Basic Operations

**GSA consults with OFPP**
**GSA to manage the fund through FAI**
**AWTF deposits estimated to be about $5M annually**
**Beginning ****January 1, 2004, and effective for 5 years **
**Applies to all eligible fees collected on or after January 1, 2004 on any active task or delivery orders and contracts**
**Amounts credited are available in the fiscal year credited plus two**

## AWTF Funding Basics

**Funded by deposit of 5% of fees collected**
**By non-DOD agencies**
**From non-DOD agencies**
**Under governmentwide task & delivery order contracts**
**Interagency contracts awarded under Clinger-Cohen Act authority**
**GSA schedule contracts**

## AWTF Objectives

**Fund to be used to meet the stated purpose**
**Purpose goes beyond just contracting, to include the entire non-DoD acquisition workforce**
**Amounts credited to the fund shall be in **_***addition***_** to funds appropriated for education & training**
**Agencies should not reprogram budgeted training funds**
**Fund is intended to benefit non-DoD agencies as a whole, not individual agencies**

## AWTF Initiatives	

**Partnering with DAU on**
**Revision of CON curriculum**
**Services acquisition course**
**Training on FAR updates**
**Includes online and classroom training**
**Providing subject matter advice directly and through civilian agency volunteers**
**May support development more directly on targeted initiatives**

## AWTF Initiatives

**Near term initiatives**
**Updates to Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR/COTR) training**
**Identifying Project/Program Management training**
**EVMS**
**Training on small business issues**
**Migration to e-training platform**
**Definition and application of measures of training effectiveness**
**Sponsoring classroom training**
**Train the trainer**
**Commercial sources**

## Acquisition Strategies

**SRA will provide management and oversight of AWTF**
**FAI will separately acquire any needed course development through DAU or commercial sources**
**DAU and FAI will collaborate on initiatives and leverage resources toward a common framework**** **

## Next steps...

**Interested companies should contact Linda Ott at **_**[linda.ott@gsa.gov](mailto:linda.ott@gsa.gov)**__** to be added to prospective vendor list**_
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