Objective:
The course objective is to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, award, and administer performance-based service contracts.
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss the unique aspects of service acquisition
- Analyze requirements with respect to the ability to contract based on performance
- Determine if the requirements document is performance-based
- Prepare a quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP)
- Select the method of contracting and source selection process in a performance-based environment
- Administer a performance-based service contract
General Course Topics:
- Introduction to performance-based service acquisition
- Planning for performance-based service acquisition
- Defining the need
- Preparing the performance work statement
- Another approach
- Statement of objectives
- Quality assurance surveillance plan
- Finalizing the source selection strategy
- Contract formation
- Contract administration