Recertification For Contracting Officer Representatives

Author : U. S. Military
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781689615662
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of DoD and Federal Non-DoD COR Competencies - Policies That Codify the Training, Experience, Competencies, and Responsibilities of the Contracting Officer's Representative written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research is to analyze and measure the effectiveness of the guidance for identification, development, certification, and management of contracting officer's representatives (CORs) within the Department of Defense (DoD) in comparison to Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer's Representatives (FAC-CORs). The research team utilized responses from the DoD COR Competencies Survey and provided recommendations on its findings to improve training and technical competency structures in order to leverage best practices from the FAC-COR structures. Although the research did not demonstrate a statistically significant difference in proficiencies between DoD-CORs and FAC-CORs, the results demonstrated a strong correlation between time-spent and proficiencies, which allows for areas of further research. Regarding the proficiencies of the DoD-CORs and FAC-CORs, it is evident that there are areas the DoD can improve through coordination with FAC-CORs and Federal Acquisition Institute.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.Over eight years have passed since the DoD has subjectively evaluated the effectiveness of the uniform guidance for identification, development, certification, and management of CORs within the DoD, originally produced in 2010. To date, no quantifiable or objective analysis has been conducted to measure the effectiveness of this guidance. In contrast, as part of its delegated responsibilities, the FAI collects a myriad of data to in order to, "analyze acquisition workforce data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the heads of executive agencies, and, through periodic surveys, from individual employees" (41 U.S.C 1201(a)(3)) in order to evaluate and measure training and development efforts. Although the DoD has failed to collect data to analyze and prove in any meaningful way, there is no shortage of literature that highlight the continued contract surveillance shortfalls due in part by inadequately trained and incompetent DoD CORs. Therefore, this research is focused on comparing the proficiency of DoD CORs to non-DoD CORs as a means to identify and improve areas of weakness by answering the following primary and secondary research questions.