CON 1300: Contract Award

Course Number
NIHTC9578
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Description

PLEASE NOTE THIS COURSE IS ONLY OFFERED AS A CLOSED ENROLLMENT IN FY26.
Discover the skills and competencies that contracting specialists must acquire and apply throughout their careers. This course addresses skills and competencies most basic and fundamental to the contracting professional specific to contract award, which includes conducting cost or price analysis, planning negotiations, selecting a source, and understanding protests. This course is one of four courses within the Contracting Certification Training Program

Key Topics
  • Summarize contract, cost, schedule and performance risk.
  • Summarize cost analysis, cost realism techniques and the proposal analysis techniques.
  • Given the FAR, DFARS, and PGI, summarize the policies and procedures for planning contract negotiations.
  • Outline the process for the initial screening of offers and the process for evaluating offers.

Audience:

NIH employees who are entry-level contracting professionals, and other members of the acquisition who are preparing for the Contracting Certification Exam.

Class Registration Process

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Upcoming Offerings

There are currently no scheduled offerings for the course CON 1300: Contract Award. Contact me when additional offerings for this course are scheduled.
This course can be provided as a closed enrollment class for groups. If you would like to request a closed enrollment class, please contact the NIHTrainingCenter@nih.gov.

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