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THE FAR BOOTCAMP® 4 Events
THE FAR BOOTCAMP® is a virtual hands-on training course, learn-by-doing, four and one-half day total immersion in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), open to both novices and seasoned professionals in government and industry. There are no prerequisites and no experience is presumed. There are no lectures and no slideshows. Instead of passive listening, there is active practice. Attendees learn how to research, read, interpret and apply the FAR by working through a series of problems of gradually increasing complexity.
Graduates of The FAR Bootcamp® receive 40 hours of instruction and earn 40 continuous learning points or continuing legal education points. Available during the past twenty years only to Government agencies in specially arranged group sessions, The FAR Bootcamp® is now open to applicants from both Government and industry.
All sessions will proceed as scheduled, starting at 9:00 a.m., regardless of weather or Government shutdown.
If you have any questions, please submit them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Include your conference dates on the subject line. We will answer email inquiries no later than the morning of the next business day.
Tuition
Tuition: $1,600.00 per person Groups of 3 or more: $1,400.00 per person
Members of a group need not attend the same session in order to qualify for the group discount. Online payment(s) can be made with VISA/Mastercard. If paying with AMEX, please call 503-407-5878.
*We will use your email address only to provide you with course information. We will not send advertising or give your email address to others. For additional information please contact us.
Reschedule/Cancellation/Refund Policy
The FAR Bootcamp® limits class size in order to provide a high quality educational experience. Registrants may ask to be rescheduled, one time, at no additional charge, or may cancel and obtain a refund, less a cancellation fee of $80.00, at any time prior to 21 calendar days before the first day of the session to which they have been admitted. No refund will be given in the event of rescheduling or cancellation 21 days or less before the first day of the session. Rescheduling 21 days or less before the first day of the session will require re-registration and additional payment.
Critical Thinking 0 Events
Critical Thinking for Acquisition Professionals is a three day case-based introduction to the professional arts of systematic reasoning, argumentation, and persuasion. Those skills are needed to make sound acquisition decisions, give sensible explanations, and provide persuasive justifications of many kinds, including those needed in requirements analysis and specification, integrated program planning, acquisition planning, justifications of other than full and open competition, proposal preparation, source selection, protests, negotiations, determinations of price reasonableness and cost realism, requests for equitable adjustment, and claim submissions.
Graduates of Critical Thinking for Acquisition Professionals receive 24 hours of instruction and earn 24 continuous learning points or 24 continuing legal education points. The course is open to anyone who has achieved DAWIA Level I, FAC Level I, or their equivalent.
Course Hours
Course hours are 9:00 a.m. until 4 p.m., all three days.
All sessions will proceed as scheduled, starting at 9:00 a.m., regardless of weather or Government shutdown.
If you have any questions, please submit them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Include your conference dates on the subject line. We will answer email inquiries no later than the morning of the next business day.
Tuition
Tuition is $1,500.00 per person. Groups of 3 three or more: $1,400.00 per person. Members of a group need not attend the same session in order to qualify for the group discount. Online payment(s) can be made with VISA/Mastercard. If paying with AMEX, please call 503-407-5878.
*We will use your email address only to provide you with course information. We will not send advertising or give your email address to others. For additional information please contact us.
Reschedule/Cancellation/Refund Policy
Critical Thinking for Acquisition Professionals limits class size in order to provide a high quality educational experience. Registrants may ask to be rescheduled, one time, at no additional charge, or may cancel and obtain a refund, less a cancellation fee of $80.00, at any time prior to 21 calendar days before the first day of the session to which they have been admitted. No refund will be given in the event of rescheduling or cancellation 21 days or less before the first day of the session. Rescheduling 21 days or less before the first day of the session will require re-registration and additional payment.
Source Selection Bootcamp ℠ 1 Event
The Source Selection Bootcamp®
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SESSIONS AVAILABLE NOW!
A Path to Innovation, Efficiency, and Sound Decisions
through Concepts, Principles, and Critical Thinking
The Source Selection Bootcamp®
is designed to prepare acquisition personnel to plan source selections through critical thinking. It covers the selection and development of evaluation factors for award, evaluation process design, and solicitation preparation.
The Federal Acquisition Regulation requires that agencies plan acquisitions, including the conduct of source selections. We know that source selection planners tend to be practical people. They want to design a process that will produce a good decision within a reasonable time, that will pass any review, that will withstand any protest, and that will ultimately lead to the achievement of the acquisition objective. So we have designed a course to explain how to do that.
There are two basic ways to plan a source selection, (1) by cutting and pasting from previous plans and solicitations and (2) by critically thinking things through from scratch.
While cutting and pasting avoids “reinventing the wheel” and can save time up front, it also impedes critical thinking and spreads the use of inefficient processes that produce poor outcomes. After proposals arrive and evaluation begins, planners who cut and paste may find that they did not receive the information they need about offerors and their offers and are confronted with questions that they cannot answer because they did not think critically and from scratch. They may find that they have used terms and evaluation factors that they did not fully define and cannot clearly explain, and which must be worked out by evaluators while in the middle of things. That situation can lead to internal disagreements and to inconsistent, unreasonable, and indefensible findings and decisions.
The course is not another review of regulations and protest decisions. The emphasis is on explication of the fundamental concepts and principles of sound source selection decisionmaking. It is designed to help planners facilitate and expedite the work of evaluators and decision makers. Attendees will be shown how to design a process that is simple, efficient, and fast, stripping from it all unnecessary and unproductive steps, and using innovative labor-saving and time-saving techniques.
The course is suitable for all personnel who will participate in any competitive acquisition process other than sealed bidding, including processes conducted pursuant to FAR Parts 12, 13, 15, or 35, and FAR Subparts 8.4, 16.5, 36.3, or 36.6. It is taught virtually, through presentations, case studies, exercises, and guided discussions. Attendance is limited to 25 persons. The instructors are subject matter experts who are experienced in the conduct of source selections.
There are no prerequisites. However, prospective students should have a basic familiarity with the various methods of contracting other than sealed bidding and of the general processes of solicitation, offer (or quotation), and award.
Course hours are 9:00 am until 3:00 p.m, with one hour of study hall each day. Graduates of The Source Selection Bootcamp® earn 24 continuous learning points or continuing legal education points.
The instructors are subject matter experts who are experienced in the conduct of source selections. The Source Selection Bootcamp® limits class size in order to provide a high quality educational experience.
If you have any question, please submit them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SESSIONS AVAILABLE NOW!
Contact Us (503) 407-5878
Tuition
Tuition is $1,500.00 per person. Groups of 3 three or more: $1,400.00 per person. Members of a group need not attend the same session in order to qualify for the group discount. Online payment(s) can be made with VISA/Mastercard. If paying with AMEX, please call 503-407-5878.
*We will use your email address only to provide you with course information. We will not send advertising or give your email address to others. For additional information please contact us.
The Source Selection Bootcamp® limits class size in order to provide a high quality educational experience.