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News, announcements, training, search functions, Ask-a-Professor, and similar services with direct links supporting DoD acquisition.

Acquisition Process

Three processes cooperate to deliver capabilities needed by warfighters: the requirements process (JCIDS); the acquisition process (DAS); and the program and budget development process (PPBE). Includes links to DoD and Service policies, guidance, tools, and resources:

Workforce

Information on career management, the DoD Human Capital Initiative, career planning, leader­ship training, over­arching planning and guidance documents, and relevant professional organizations.

Policy

Encyclopedic source of acquisition policy that follows a hierarchy of policy issuance (i.e., executive, legislative, federal, etc.) and filtered according to organization, career field, and special topics.

Communities
of Practice

Links to communities of practice and special interest areas, the latest contribution and discussion posts for open ACC communities, community highlights, and links to related communities.

Training and
Continuous Learning

Information on training and continuous learning that supports DoD acquisition, information that helps manage professional training portfolios, and information on training available from DAU and DoD and Services activities.

Industry

Information on DoD industry partners that helps the participation and execution of DoD processes; including industry support pages, news, information, and links to private sector acquisition contractors.
 
 

Functional Gateways

Sixteen functional knowledge gateways, one for each of the defense acquisition career fields.

Special Topics

Links to gateways about important topics outside the general portals and beyond the standard career fields:

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Purpose: The purpose of this COP is to give the AT&L professional a centralized location to go to for questions dealing with acquisition law.

 

Latest Knowledge in the Community

[Case Studies] Agency failed to engage in adequate discussions and misevaluated proposals under a task order competition

Fri, 01 Feb 2013

[Case Studies] The Marine Corps did not reasonably evaluate the technical acceptability of Dehler’s quotation in a manner consistent with the RFQ.

Tue, 08 Jan 2013

[Case Studies] Past performance, the record does not support the reasonableness of this rating.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013

[Case Studies] Brand name or equal solicitation conducted under simplified acquisition procedures where the solicitation lacked salient characteristics

Mon, 07 Jan 2013

[References] UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE VALUES-BASED ETHICS PROGRAM – PHASE II RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROGRAM DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION

Thu, 03 Jan 2013

[Case Studies] Protester argues that the agency’s evaluation of the offerors’ proposals was unreasonable under several of the technical evaluation factors, and that the selection decision was therefore flawed.

Thu, 20 Dec 2012

[Announcement] Gifts from Outside Sources

Tue, 11 Dec 2012

[Case Studies] While we agree with the protester that the manufacturing facilities and key tooling and equipment criteria of the production capability factor required offerors to distinguish between existing facilities/equipment and proposed plans to acquire facilities/equipment, we do not agree that the solicitation mandated a higher risk assessment for offerors without all of the facilities and equipment that will eventually be required.

Mon, 03 Dec 2012

[Case Studies] Protester primarily argues that DIA improperly evaluated technical and price proposals and made an improper source selection decision.

Mon, 19 Nov 2012

[References] A Collection of Federal Resources Relating to Conferences

Tue, 06 Nov 2012
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