The government-wide procurement standards contained in the Office of Management and Budget’s “uniform guidance” are pretty skeletal. There’s not much meaty detail, especially addressing how to handle procurement tasks. The details are left to recipients and subrecipients.
The documents that are used to solicit offers from the marketplace are full of often-confusing acronyms, which are letter substitutes for the real words, such as IFB, RFP, RFQ and RFEI. These document types are intended to guide offerors in submitting information that will enable procuring officials to make solid source selection decisions.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out that way. And the blame for the difficulties can often be traced to defects in the original solicitation documents and misunderstandings about how to use the right document and terminology.
This webinar will build upon the federal requirements and highlight best practices to help you prepare sound solicitation documents that enable you to obtain what is needed for effective grant program management. We’ll sort out:
- The “Alphabet Soup”
- IFBs: Invitations for Bids
- RFQs: Requests for Quotations
- RFQs: Requests for Qualifications
- RFPs: Requests for Proposals
- RFEIs: Requests for Expressions of Interest
- … and More
- Conduct by Procuring Officials and Offerors
- Instructions for Submitting Offers
- Managing and Applying Source Selection Criteria
- Contract Placement
- Describing Post-Award Expectations
- Special Procurement Rules for Professional Services
- What We Can Learn from the Feds
Hand-out Materials:
Attendees will receive presentation slides as well as access to background materials.
Allowable Charges
The costs of webinars sponsored by Federal Fund Management Advisor™ are allowable charges to your federal grants and subgrants. The cost principles issued by OMB under its uniform guidance (and applicable to all types of awardees) state, “The cost of training and education for employee development is allowable” (2 CFR 200.472).
Attend this Live Webinar and Earn up to 1.8 CPE Credits