September 2019
Subcontracting Summit 2019: Subcontract Pricing
If you are perplexed by the twists and turns of subcontracting, the curve balls that prime contractors throw at you, and the challenges presented by your own subcontractors, we have just what you need! Join our instructors Cy Alba, Tim Sullivan, Bill Walter, as well as special guests, for PCI’s “Subcontracting Summit,” a series of nine 75-minute virtual webinars beginning in January. You and your colleagues are invited to participate as our experienced faculty explains virtually every aspect of the…
Find out more »The Professor’s Forum with Ralph Nash & Tim Sullivan 2019: IDIQs
It is unlikely that the men and women who conceived the Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity-type contract concept had any real idea of the changes it would engender in Government contracting. Now, some 25 years after it was born in the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, it has become a force to be reckoned with, and merits close study by anyone who has to deal with IDIQ contracts. Join Professor Ralph Nash and Tim Sullivan as they discuss the IDIQ world—when and how…
Find out more »October 2019
Understanding Proposal Evaluations: Source Selection Authority and Award Types
This Understanding the Proposal Evaluation Process Series is for both contractors and agencies who want, or need, to have a better understanding of the proposal evaluation process. Each virtual class in the series will examine one common evaluation factor. Each topic has been selected because it is often a significant, possibly deciding, factor in the ultimate award decision of many federal contract awards. Before each session we will send out optional homework questions that can be answered to earn points…
Find out more »Get Ready for CIO-SP4 & A Review of Current Contract Vehicles
The next major GWAC competition will likely be CIO-SP4, or Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4. The current vehicle’s ordering period ends in July 2022, but the competition is likely to begin in 2020 due to the length of time it takes to recompete major contracts. CIO-SP3 has hosted billions of dollars in federal IT work. Join Brian Friel of BD Squared for a review of the current contract vehicle and what companies—both large and small businesses--should be doing to…
Find out more »Types of Contracts
A one day in-depth analysis of the new focus and guidelines on the selection, use, and management of contracts by type. Implications on costs, accounting systems, management, and administration of this new emphasis on all contract vehicles will be examined There is a new emphasis on Contract Types in Government Contracting. In acquisition planning, Government agencies have been directed to move away from Cost Type Contracts to Firm Fixed-Price Contracts. This emphasis on Fixed-Price Contracts is designed to control costs…
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