Recertification Course
COR Recertification
Course: TRR-01 5 DaysTuition: List $16,500; GSA Price $9,933.
Special Discounts: $8,271/class (>14 classes or >$100,000 on a single order); $7,439/class (>29 classes or > $250,000 on a single order)
Audience: This course is for all personnel seeking initial COR recertification in accordance with FAC-COR.
Course Perspective: Initial certification training focuses on the acquisition, rules, and procedures. This course focuses on how to effectively select sources and manage contracts. It covers how to choose and customize select procedures for different requirements; how to assess offeror proposals and render a selection decision; how to prepare for quality/schedule assurance, guide contractor performance, and ensure proper payments; and how to foster a proper business partnership with a contractor.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Recognize available selection procedures, select a best fit for their requirements, and customize it to their acquisition.
- Perform market research, recommend an appropriate contract type, and link work statement requirements to developing evaluation criteria.
- Develop customized selection criteria, proposal instructions, and an evaluation plan.
- Evaluate technical proposals, work out a consensus, and present supportable findings and recommendations.
- Develop a probable cost estimate, perform a cost analysis, and support a cost realism adjustment.
- Obtain and review necessary cost and pricing data.
- Provide support for competitive range determinations and negotiations.
- Conduct and support a best value analysis using quantitative and non-quantitative discriminators
- Prepare a customized COR appointment letter.
- Develop a quality assurance surveillance plan. and apply a progress monitoring system.
- Issue timely and proper technical directions and avoid unauthorized changes.
- Review and approve performance-based and interim payment requests.
- Review and resolve requests for equitable adjustment including application of the “leave-them-where-you find-them rule,” principles of “actual cost,” “reasonable value,” and “making a contractor whole.”
- Develop and foster a proper COR/contractor partnership.