CMMC is coming. Since the focus is protecting Critical Unclassified Info (CUI), what data protections are you putting in place… and for what data? We discuss why CMMC and NIST 800-171 data protection controls should be at the heart of your strategy | what a data stewardship model for the DIB looks like | and the respective Government & Industry roles and responsibilities for protecting critical info. This is the second session in th...

The Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) provides a statutory right of public access to Executive Branch records, including records about government contracts, and contractors. This program, taught by a Government FOIA attorney and a private sector government contract attorney, examines FOIA from a variety of contract-related perspectives. What you will learn about: FOIA procedural requirements—What can be requested, how, and...

Refresh on or be introduced to best practices, techniques and tools for managing every aspect of a proposal. Improve your win rates with proven methods to match your proposal process to the pursuit at hand. Course Topics include: Managing proposal time and resources Conducting effective proposal kickoffs Rightsizing proposal processes Techniques for subject mastery and guiding subject matter experts Facilitating solution and section developmen...

Are you using the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) information in your business, marketing, and proposal development? It is a free real-time database serving the government acquisition community and is recognized as the authoritative source of contract information that is updated daily. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) establishes FPDS as the official reporting tool and repository for Federal procurement transactions. Our FPDS: A...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. If you sell health care products/equipment, pharmaceuticals, and services, then our two-day Boot Camp for VA Schedules training course will provide government contracting professionals with insight into how to better negotiate and manage their VA Schedules and may help grow sales in the federal market. The Department of Veteran...

You win the contract, and things are going along great…until they aren’t. This program deals with two of the most important issues in contract performance: changes and equitable adjustments. Taught by an experienced government contracts attorney, this program deals with: How the government issues change orders, both formal and constructive; What can the government change, and what is outside the scope of the contract; Bi-lateral a...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. Our 2020 event is changing to entirely virtual due to recommendation by public health officials in King County, WA that large gatherings be cancelled due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. New virtual event will be scheduled in the future. Join 1,000 government social media professionals for the only major social media conference in the Unite...

This course taught by an experienced government procurement attorney, William Weisberg. The course will take a deep dive into teaming agreements, a part of the procurement process that too often gets taken for granted. The course will examine key aspects of teaming agreements, including: The basic structure of teaming agreements; How binding is the teaming agreement? (How binding do you want it to be?) What survives the expiration of the teami...

This three-hour webinar is a very abbreviated version of Centre’s two-day class on Contract Administration and is designed to provide participants with a high-level take on the “Do’s and Don’t’s” in contract administration. This webinar will assist participants to determine whether the longer more in-depth Contract Administration course is warranted. Contract administration is without a doubt the most comple...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Society, technology, and institutions are confronting unprecedented change. Rapid acceleration of innovation, disruptive technologies and infrastructures, and new modes of network-enabled conflict requires leaders to not only think outside the box, but to think without the box. The Future Proof conference brings together the hackers, thinkers...