# Presentation: 674898

## Acquisition Workforce Professionalism 

- Department of the Interior
- Business Conference
- May 2006

## Background

- Acquisition identified as high risk by GAO and
- 	DOI-OIG
- Governmentwide Acquisition $ 400 Billion
- Interior Acquisition $4 Billion
- Congressional reaction – Professionalize Acquisition Workforce
- OMB Policy Letters
- Acquisition
- Internal Controls

## Benefits 

- Governmentwide
- Consistent and current training
- Develop business managers
- Improve customer service
- Departmentwide
- Improve assurance of A-123 compliance
- FBMS Standardization
- Improve partnership collaboration – Wildland Fire, Emergency response Teams, Service 1st initiative

## Benefits to Employees

- More opportunities to qualify for jobs
- Equalize the workforce
- Equalize the core competencies and curriculum
- More flexible workforce
- Leverage training development dollars
- Leverage training opportunities

## Who/What

- Contracting Officer Representatives - new training/maintenance requirements
- After January 2007, all new contracting officers and all contracting officers with unlimited warrants must be certified
- All contracting officers must be certified
- All GS-13 and above procurement/price analysts and all  supervisors of acquisition offices must be certified
- Program and Project Managers certification program

## Stovepipes

- _Legacy_			_Legacy_	 _New_
- 	Acquisition Planning I     **or  ** CON 101   **or**	CON 100
- 	Contract Formation I                                   	CON 110
- 	Contract Admin I				CON 111
- 		**+**			      **+**		CON 112
- 	Price Analysis	     **or **	CON 104	CON 120
- 	Cost Analysis
- 	Negotiation
- CON 100 only if taking CON 110, 111, 112 and 120

## Stovepipes continued

- _Legacy_			_Legacy__ _	  _New_
- 	Acquisition Planning II   **or**	CON 202    **or****	**CON 214
- 	Contract Formation II			CON 215
- 	Contract Administration II			CON 216
- 							CON 217
- 				**+**			CON 218
- 		Government Contract Law (CON 210)
- 		Intermediate Contract Pricing (CON 204)

## Level II Curriculum Change

- CON 214 Business Decisions for Contracting
- Distance Learning – 24 hrs in 30 days
- CON 215 Intermediate Contracting for Mission Support
- 8 days  in classroom
- CON 216 Legal Considerations in Contracting
- 30 hours in 30 days
- CON 217 Cost Analysis and Negotiation Techniques
- 40 hrs in 30 days
- CON 218 Advanced Contracting for Mission Support
- 9.5 days in classroom

## Level II Curriculum

- Blend of distance and classroom learning
- Distance learning courses for new knowledge
- Classroom courses will have case-based to develop critical thinking, technical and business skills
- Supervisors provide ample time for employees to complete on-line training
- Pilots are complete
- Transition starting for civilian agency training providers
- Transition complete in FY 2007

## FAI Sponsored Training Classes

- Tuition costs prepaid by Acquisition Workforce Training Fund
- Augment not replace training budgets
- BMRA, ESI and MCI teaching DAU materials/tests
- No Money directly to agencies
- Allotments based on surveys
- Survey in May for FY ’07 training needs
- Survey in October for FY ’08 training needs

## AWTF – FAI Registration Process

- Bureau Training Coordinators collect registration forms/confirm eligibility and prioritize
- Point of Contact for registration is Acquisition Career Manager – prioritize Interior Needs, balance bureau requests, advocate for additional slots
- Reschedule or cancel ASAP w/FAI
- CON 120 (soon) and CON 353 (eventually)
- More classes and locations in FY’07
- Performance Based Services Acquisition –
- Separate from DAU training – but AWTF money
- Rescheduling/cancellations w/ BTCs/ACM

## Federal Acquisition Certification – Contracting (FAC-C)

- Grandfather Education only (1/1/00) 1102, 1105, warrant holders
- Legacy Workforce Training – Equivalencies Matrix – on-line soon
- Civilian Agency-wide consistency and mutual recognition
- Must have training Certificates or letter from provider
- FAI general program guidance
- Program administered by agency
- 80 CLPs every 2 years – by 10/1/07

## Additional Info

- Acquisition Career Manual
- COR, Warrants, FAC-C, ACMIS, etc
- Acquisition Career Management Information System – ACMIS
- Changing to DoD platform – soon
- Bureau ACMIS coordinators
- Implement w/in 6 months of availability
- Manuals/implementation strategy complete