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To educate Industry Partners about the GSA's State & Local Cooperative Purchasing Program in order to further IT Schedule 70 state & local efforts.

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Audience: Industry Partners
Type of Event: Educational

January Webinar: Post Award Responsibilities: How to effectively manage your VA Schedule contract

As the first webinar of the New Year, we will focus on what VA Schedule contractors need to do to effectively manage their contracts, and required deliverables, including:

• Price List Requirements
• Modifying your FSS contract
• Sales Reports & IFF
• Novation & Name Changes
• Contract Extension
• Contract Cancellation

Webinar Info

Topic: Post Award Responsibilities

The webinar will focus on the fine points of the Commercial Sales Practices Format (CSP-1), including:

• What the CSP is and how it is reviewed;
• Annual commercial sales calculations & estimated Government sales;
• Standard commercial sales practice deviations & justifications;
• Requirements for resellers with insignificant commercial sales;
• The difference between the CSP table and proposed pricing spreadsheet.

Webinar Info
Topic:  Commercial Sales Practices Format

Learn a step-by-step approach to placing a utility energy service contract (UESC) task order under a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Areawide Contract. Focus on developing skills related to the acquisition plan; preliminary audit and findings; feasibility study and project proposal; contract for construction; construction and installation; performance assurance and acceptance; post-construction; and commissioning.

NOTICE: Due to the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy, the CSP webinar scheduled for Wednesday, October 31 at 10am, has been cancelled.  The event will be rescheduled for Wednesday, December 12 10am – 12pm CT.

Our second webinar in our Contractor Training series will focus on the fine points of the Commercial Sales Practices Format (CSP-1), including:

This week's video kicks off Mark Lee's (FAS' Acquisition Management's Policy Chief) video presentation from the 2012 GSA Expo. This clip addresses Schedules benefits for small business utilization from both the business' and agency's perspective and dives into the first topic, "What is socioeconomics? Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) Senior Procurement Analyst Tommy Benton continues his Schedules vs. Open Markets video series from the 2012 GSA Expo. This video wraps up FAR Part 7 planning and goes into the differences between FAR Subpart 8.4 and FAR Part 13, covering full & open competition, solicitation procedures, evaluation procedures, management administration (good table comparisons shown). Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

Join us next Wednesday for the next clip of Schedules vs. Open Markets (Pt 10 of 11)!