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GMU CPE – Contract Cost Accounting Deep Dive
Online(May 19-22, 2025) Contract Cost accounting issues for government contractors can cause no end of headaches. But you don’t have to struggle through on your own. The expert instructors at PCI have created a high-intensity boot camp to help alleviate your cost accounting-related headaches and transform cost accounting confusion into cost accounting competence! This course, […]
FREE GovCon 101: Teaming Agreements
OnlineMany government contractors enter into “teaming agreements” to pursue business with the federal government. These agreements are sometimes broadly written, while other times very specific. The extent to which a […]
GMU CPE – Contract Cost Accounting Deep Dive
Online(May 19-22, 2025) Contract Cost accounting issues for government contractors can cause no end of headaches. But you don’t have to struggle through on your own. The expert instructors at PCI have created a high-intensity boot camp to help alleviate your cost accounting-related headaches and transform cost accounting confusion into cost accounting competence! This course, […]
Subcontract Management from A-to-Z: Contractor Purchasing Systems
Onlinehttps://publiccontractinginstitute.com/product/subcontract-management-from-a-to-z-series-2025/ Every year, the U.S. government awards hundreds of billions of dollars to prime contractors to deliver products and provide needed services. But a significant portion of this funding flows through the prime contractors down to subcontractors and vendors – entities who ultimately have no direct contractual relationship with the federal government, yet still are […]
Cracking the Code: AI, Keywords, and Federal Registrations Incorporating the DOGE Factor
OnlineIn a recent study performed by TargetGov, over 90% of companies registered in SAM.gov to do business in the federal marketplace do not know how to effectively market to federal […]
Crafting GovCon Communication Clarity: Persuading the Unconvinced
OnlineWhether your task today is to craft a contract, claim, requests for equitable adjustments, protest, decision memo, source selection statement or any other contracting file documentation, this class will provide […]
GMU CPE – Contract Cost Accounting Deep Dive
Online(May 19-22, 2025) Contract Cost accounting issues for government contractors can cause no end of headaches. But you don’t have to struggle through on your own. The expert instructors at PCI have created a high-intensity boot camp to help alleviate your cost accounting-related headaches and transform cost accounting confusion into cost accounting competence! This course, […]
FAR Express
OnlineTake a trip on the FAR express as it travels through the procurement life cycle. Our train will stop for: Loading the cargo - Acquisition planning and Solicitation preparation (Parts […]
Supply Chain Symposium: Cybersecurity Issues
Onlinehttps://publiccontractinginstitute.com/product/supply-chain-symposium/ PCI is proud to present the twelfth year of the Supply Chain Symposium, a monthly virtual training series that provides insights about latest legal and practical issues that impact the supply chain. Attendees include management from the largest prime contractors and systems integrators to employees of small businesses and the lowest tier of subcontractors. All Sessions […]
GMU CPE – Contract Cost Accounting Deep Dive
Online(May 19-22, 2025) Contract Cost accounting issues for government contractors can cause no end of headaches. But you don’t have to struggle through on your own. The expert instructors at PCI have created a high-intensity boot camp to help alleviate your cost accounting-related headaches and transform cost accounting confusion into cost accounting competence! This course, […]
Professor’s Forum 2025 – Market-Based Competition
Onlinehttps://publiccontractinginstitute.com/product/professors-forum-2025/ Professor Ralph Nash and Tim Sullivan are delighted to present the ninth year of “The Professor’s Forum,” a monthly virtual class designed to delve into some of the most challenging issues facing contractors and Government personnel alike. As always, each session will give you and your colleagues the opportunity to hear from two of […]
Professor’s Forum 2025: Market Based Competition
Onlinehttps://publiccontractinginstitute.com/product/professors-forum-2025/ Professor Ralph Nash and Tim Sullivan are delighted to present the ninth year of “The Professor’s Forum,” a monthly virtual class designed to delve into some of the most challenging issues facing contractors and Government personnel alike. As always, each session will give you and your colleagues the opportunity to hear from two of […]
0-60: Contract Interpretation
Onlinehttps://publiccontractinginstitute.com/product/0-60-govcon-in-a-capsule-series-2/ The Public Contracting Institute is bringing you up to speed fast! The 0-60 live virtual training series explores different topics on the most important areas of government contracting. Whether you are new to government contracting or have years of experience, this series will deliver substantive information in different areas as well as practical guidance […]
Worst Mistakes in Government Contracting
OnlineWhy repeat your mistakes or the mistakes of others? Sometimes learning only about best practices and principles is not enough to drive the lesson home. You should also learn about the inverse. The Worst Mistakes course discusses many classic mistakes to avoid as a government contractor, drawn from different phases of the government contract life cycle. The […]
Crafting GovCon Communication Clarity: Preserving the Record
OnlineWhether your task today is to craft a contract, claim, requests for equitable adjustments, protest, decision memo, source selection statement or any other contracting file documentation, this class will provide you with tools for clarity, persuasion, and comprehension. In each of the six two-hour sessions, we will dive into a review and discussion that explores […]
FUN with the FAR℠ 2025: FAR 15.4
Onlinehttps://publiccontractinginstitute.com/product/fun-with-the-far-season-2025-3/ Covering each Part of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and created to make the FAR approachable and thought provoking for contracting professionals at all levels. This training is delivered in […]
Cost Principles and FAR Part 31: Going Deeper on Allocability
Onlinehttps://publiccontractinginstitute.com/product/cost-principles-and-far-part-31-series-2025-2/ Contractors are able to recover both direct and indirect costs. While simple in theory, pitfalls abound for contractors. This series will discuss the what costs the Government may and may not pay during a contract, how they must be accounted for, and how the contractor must treat certain types of cost-creating items. During this 6-part program, […]
Government Contract & Award Terminations in the Age of the DOGE
OnlineGovernment contracts and assistance awards have been terminated on an unprecedented scale thus far in 2025 as the Trump Administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seek to redefine US Federal government spending. Many contractors and assistance awardees have faced critically urgent business and organizational challenges as a result. Join BRG as we […]
GMU CPE – Contract Pricing & Pricing Fundamentals
Online(June 2-3, 2025) Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. […]
FREE GovCon 101: Flowdowns
OnlineAny government contractor that is subcontracting a portion of its work to another company needs to include certain prime contract requirements down through the supply chain. But where a subcontractor may balk at the prospect of accepting hundreds of clauses without discussion, companies often engage in a negotiated back-and-forth, trying to figure out what clauses must be […]