Ever increasing demands to provide innovative and creative ways to deliver results has made performance-based acquisition (PBA) a necessity. Over the years, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has increased the percent of eligible service contracts which require application of PBA method – making PBA not just good business sense but a requirement.
ESI’s Performance-Based Acquisition courses provide the essential skills needed to more effectively plan, manage and implement contracts, which will improve individual performance as well as an organization’s overall performance.
Performance-Based Acquisition: Preparing Work Statements
Learn How To
- Write performance work statements that clearly describe your requirements
- Establish measurable, realistic standards of performance
- Develop clear and solid evaluation factors that are tailored to the acquisition
- Use incentives and penalties to your advantage
- Evaluate performance results against performance standards
- Use strategies, criteria and advantages for converting cost-plus requirements
into fixed-price requirements
- Develop and manage the PBA team
— team formation, work breakdown and task identification
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Managing Performance-Based Service Awards
Learn How To
- Facilitate a partnering relationship between government contract monitors and the contractor
- Identify practical methods for inspecting, measuring performance and applying incentives
- Develop performance standards and metrics as contract conditions change
- Effectively settle contract disputes through the use of industry best practices
- Assess contractor performance and successfully close a performance based contract
- Administer performance-based contracts using tips from industry leaders
- Use the key tools of a performance-based service contract to manage
effective contract performance
- Differentiate between the traditional approach and the performance-based
approach to administering contracts
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Performance-Based Acquisition (on-site only)
Learn How To
- Write performance work statements that clearly describe your requirements
- Establish measurable, realistic standards of performance
- Use incentives and penalties to your advantage
- Evaluate performance results against performance standards
- Use the key tools of a performance based service contract to manage effective
contract performance
- Facilitate a partnering relationship between government contract monitors and the contractor
- Identify practical methods for inspecting, measuring performance and applying incentives
- Assess contractor performance and successfully close a performance based contract
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Performance-Based Service Acquisition for Integrated Procurement Team (on-site only)
Learn How To
- Describe the concepts and implementation of performance-based service contracting
- Perform market research to determine possible public and private sector
sources and solutions
- Perform a job analysis in preparation for writing a statement of work
- Develop a clear and concise performance work statement based on the
job analysis performed
- Develop and apply an effective quality assurance plan
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