NO TIME TO LOSE
WORKING STEP BY STEP
In partnership with DAU Mission Assistance, the JPEO-CBD has tailored its workforce development sessions to the various segments of the procurement cycle, such as the workshop on building a request for proposal (RFP) and the contracting officer’s representative (COR) course on awarding contracts. (SOURCE: JPEO-CBD)
NO MORE ‘CONTRACT OF THE DAY’ Douglas Bryce, joint program executive officer, is convinced that program managers (PMs) must have more than a fundamental knowledge of contracting to influence contracting-related deci- sions that impact their programs. “Far too often, the program management team throws their input over the wall to the con- tract team, and 24 months later we have a contract,” Bryce said.
“Tis leads to the ‘contract of the day’ approach. Te key is to use the right contract type and incentives for the program.”
With this goal in mind, Bryce directed his staff to reach out to DAU to create a “Contracting for Program Managers” workshop that orients newly assigned program management personnel to the art and science of government contracting. Te topics include contracting strategies, types of contracts, incentivizing contractor performance, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement,
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and how they all relate to “DOD Instruction 5000.02, Opera- tion of the Defense Acquisition System.” Te intent is not to create contracting experts, but to establish a level of understand- ing that facilitates proactive engagement with the contracting community as the program management team plans acquisition strategies.
Te JPEO-CBD also has assigned former civil service con- tracting professionals to each program office. Tey assist in developing acquisition packages and liaise with their peers in the supporting contracting activities. Tis enables the program teams to collaborate with contracting subject matter experts who are also fully vested in program acquisition strategies. Te result of this collaboration is acquisition packages that require far less rework between the acquisition and contracting shops, as well as procurement strategies that are more tailored to a spe- cific requirement versus one size fits all.
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