Task Order Contracts

Course Description:

This course develops skill at establishing task and delivery order contracts and ordering against such contracts. The learning objectives are achieved through critiquing excerpts from sample solicitations for multiple award task order contracts; developing pre-negotiation positions on loaded labor rates for task order contracts; identifying requirements that may (and may not) be placed against sample task order contracts; critiquing statements of work, and other terms drafted for individual orders, based on Government requirements and the terms of a sample task order contract; determining whether single source orders are proper under FAR 15.505(b)(2); determining whether an awardee may properly be considered for an order; developing or critiquing plans for multiphase evaluations/downselections based on Government requirements and the terms of a sample task order contract; developing prenegotiation positions on proposed prices of individual orders; and performing task order closeouts. The target audience for this course consists of personnel in the contract specialist (GS-1102) career path, and other personnel involved in establishing task and delivery order contracts, as well as ordering against such contracts.

Prerequisites:

None; Suggested:
• Acquisition Planning I
• Contract Formation I
• Contract Administration I, and,
• Price Analysis

Learning Objectives:

I. Establishing Task Order Contracts
  A. Determine Whether To Establish Task Order Contracts
  B. Draft Statements Of Work For Task Order Contracts
  C. Establish The Basis For Pricing Offers
  D. Establish Non-Price Factors For Award
  E. Select The Indefinite Delivery Vehicle
  F. Determine Whether To Make Multiple Awards
  G. Establish Ordering Procedures For Single Award Task Order Contracts
  H. Establish Consideration Criteria And Ordering Procedures For Multiple Award Task Order Contracts
  I. Establish Terms And Conditions For Pricing Individual Orders
  J. Solicit And Evaluating Offers
II. Ordering Against Single Award Task Order Contracts
  A. Verify that the requirement may be ordered under the contract.
  B. Determine method of order placement
  C. Prepare orders
III. Ordering Against Multiple Award Task Order Contracts
  A. Determine Whether A Requirement May Be Ordered Under The Contract
  B. Draft A Statement Of Work And Other Terms For The Order
  C. Determine Whether To Consider All Awardees For The Order
  D. Determine Which Awardees (If Any) To Contact Prior To Placing An Order
  E. Conduct Exchanges With One Or More Of The Awardees
  F. Select An Awardee For The Order
  G. Negotiate Terms Of The Order
  H. Prepare And Issuing The Order
  I. Respond To Ombudsman Reviews Of Task Order Placements
  J. Administer Orders