Learn government contracting the non-boring way

Master the regulatory foundation, tactical guidance, and practical tools behind Guiding Principle #4 of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO): Award Contracts to Contractors Who Demonstrate a Superior Ability to Perform (FAR 1.102(4)).

This course traces contractor performance management from FASA through the RFO's sharpened framework.

Along the way, it walks through the parts of the FAR that carry this policy: 9, 15, 19, 40, and 42, and what each change means in practice.

By the end, you'll be able to:

• Structure responsibility determinations
• Design source selections that actually differentiate performers
• Manage performance accountability in small business contracting

The course puts the RFO's companion resources to work, too: the FAR Companion Guide and the Practitioner Albums, connecting the regulatory reading to what you do on the job.

Finish equipped to select contractors who enable mission delivery, the way the RFO intended.

Spend a beautiful day in the neighborhood with Mr. Roberts, a Contracting Officer (CO) who thinks a post-award debrief should feel less like a legal deposition and more like a conversation.

This video-driven course opens on a number that should bother every CO:

Of 1,658 protests filed in FY2022, only 59 were sustained.

That 13% gap isn't really a legal problem, it's a communication one.

Because the government keeps making defensible award decisions and then explaining them so thinly that industry protests instead of believing them.

Built around four rules of relational debriefing, the course reframes FAR 15.301, Postaward debriefing of offerors, from a box to check into a relationship to build.

It shows the daylight between a traditional debrief written to defend the government's position and a relational one held to actually help the offeror who lost.

Follow Mr. Roberts as he:

• Drops the legalese
• Opens up instead of hiding behind the protest clock
• Shifts the conversation from the award that's already decided to the work still coming
• Finds time for all of it, even when he's short-staffed and desperate to stay protest-free

Leave equipped to:

• Say what you can
• Know what you can't
• Send a losing offeror home ready to compete again for the next solicitation, instead of ready to protest next week

Sit down at the table, keep both hands where everyone can see them.

Let a wise contracting mentor known as the Farfather walk you through what to do when contractor performance starts to slip, in this video-driven course on managing bad contractor performance.

Built around the family of FAR clauses that protect taxpayer dollars, the course follows a young learner named Michael through every tool a COR or CO needs:

• CPARS ratings under FAR 42.11
• The excusable delays clause when the government is at fault
• Invoice rejection for non-conforming work
• Cure and show cause notices
• The four termination paths — convenience, default, no-cost settlement, and commercial cause

Learn:

• Why some performance problems are actually the government's responsibility
• How to escalate fairly when the fault sits with the contractor
• Which termination clause fits which situation

Leave equipped to:

• Document performance honestly
• Apply the right FAR clause at the right moment
• Run a kickoff meeting that prevents these problems from arising in the first place

All while keeping:

• Your awards clean
• Your taxpayers protected
• (Figuratively, of course) no one sleeping with the fishes

A practical walkthrough of the acquisition strategies and contract vehicles a Contracting Officer (CO) can use to solicit and buy the goods and services required to support their agency's mission. This training explains the acquisition strategies and contract vehicles available in a CO's tool belt. Learners sort through FAR-based and non-FAR-based strategies, catch the items on the chart that only look like contract types, and practice matching a pathway to a requirement's mission, market, timeline, and risk.