Navigate the ethical waters of government contracting in this video-driven course built around a Jaws-inspired storyline.
Follow a coastal contracting office under siege by LAWS — legal violations threatening mission integrity.
The course builds the knowledge to recognize, prevent, and respond to the ethics pitfalls that put contracting operations at risk.
Learn how strong ethics practices protect not just your agency, but the trust, fairness, and accountability the acquisition system depends on.
Leave this course equipped to identify ethical red flags, apply the standards that keep contracting clean, and become the kind of professional who swims toward the problem and not away from it.
Spend a beautiful day in the neighborhood with Mr. Roberts, a Contracting Officer (CO) who thinks a post-award debrief should feel less like a legal deposition and more like a conversation.
This video-driven course opens on a number that should bother every CO:
Of 1,658 protests filed in FY2022, only 59 were sustained.
That 13% gap isn't really a legal problem, it's a communication one.
Because the government keeps making defensible award decisions and then explaining them so thinly that industry protests instead of believing them.
Built around four rules of relational debriefing, the course reframes FAR 15.301, Postaward debriefing of offerors, from a box to check into a relationship to build.
It shows the daylight between a traditional debrief written to defend the government's position and a relational one held to actually help the offeror who lost.
Follow Mr. Roberts as he:
- Drops the legalese
- Opens up instead of hiding behind the protest clock
- Shifts the conversation from the award that's already decided to the work still coming
- Finds time for all of it, even when he's short-staffed and desperate to stay protest-free
Leave equipped to:
- Say what you can
- Know what you can't
- Send a losing offeror home ready to compete again for the next solicitation, instead of ready to protest next week
Sit down at the table, keep both hands where everyone can see them.
Let a wise contracting mentor known as the Farfather walk you through what to do when contractor performance starts to slip, in this video-driven course on managing bad contractor performance.
Built around the family of FAR clauses that protect taxpayer dollars, the course follows a young learner named Michael through every tool a COR or CO needs:
- CPARS ratings under FAR 42.11
- The excusable delays clause when the government is at fault
- Invoice rejection for non-conforming work
- Cure and show cause notices
- The four termination paths — convenience, default, no-cost settlement, and commercial cause
Learn:
- Why some performance problems are actually the government's responsibility
- How to escalate fairly when the fault sits with the contractor
- Which termination clause fits which situation
Leave equipped to:
- Document performance honestly
- Apply the right FAR clause at the right moment
- Run a kickoff meeting that prevents these problems from arising in the first place
All while keeping:
- Your awards clean
- Your taxpayers protected
- (Figuratively, of course) no one sleeping with the fishes