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Federal Contractor Certification (FCC)
Level 1
Course Description: This course is designed to provide commercial vendors who engage in government contracting with fundamental knowledge and skills to interpret, propose to, communicate and successfully perform on a government contract. Through a series of on-line training modules provided by Defense Acquisition University, the student should achieve the Basic Understanding (Level 1) of the fundamentals of Federal contracting, such as Federal Acquisition Regulations, Quality, Ethics, Marketing, Contract Types, Source Selection Procedures, and more. To participate in this program, you must register through a participating Procurement Technical Assistance Center.
Course Objective: For Level 1, to complete all the required courses, take a comprehensive examination, and be awarded a certificate of completion that is recognized by Federal contracting personnel as certification of your understanding of contract processes and your heightened ability to enter into and successfully perform in a government contract.
The Supporting Course Modules listed below can be accessed by going to the Defense Acquisition University website at www.dau.mil. From there, hover over “Continuous Learning” and click on “Login-Continuous Learning Modules” and proceed through the registration process. (Rather than take them in the Browse mode, it is necessary to register for these modules in order to receive a certificate of completion.)
Level I: Basic Understanding of Federal Contracting (level with the most content)
Skill area
Supporting Course Module
1. Outline of legal issues 1: understanding the FAR
Course Number: CLC 011
Course Name: Contracting for the Rest of Us
2. Business Development: market research; marketing practices
Course Number: CLC 004
Course Name: Market Research
3. How to read, understand and respond to a solicitation: RFP, RFQ, IFB, Sources Sought
Course Number: CLM 024
Course Name: Contracting Overview
Course Number: CLC 007
Course Name: Contract Source Selection
4. Types of Contracts
Course Number: CLC 105Course Name: DCMA Intern Training
5. Changes, terminations, protests
Course Number: CLC 006
Course Name: Contract Terminations
6. Subcontracting
Course Number: CLC 001Course Name: Defense Subcontract Management
7. Pricing Training: accounting structure, DCAA audits
Course Number: CLC 131
Course Name: Commercial Item Pricing
Course Number: CLM 103
Course Name: Quality Assurance Auditing
Resource: Review the booklet Information for Contractors found on http://www.dcaa.mil/
8. Developing a QA plan
Course Name: Bid Evaluation & Award: Quality Assurance StandardsPresentation complements information in textbook
9. Introduction to Wide Area Workflow (WAWF)
Take the WAWF training on line at www.wawftraining.com
Welcome to the Web-based Training Course for Wide Area Workflow (WAWF), the Department of Defense Receipts & Acceptance system. Through simulations and step-by-step procedures, you will learn how to electronically submit and take action on documents in WAWF.
10. Ethics: Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI)
Course Number: CLC 132Course Name: Organizational Conflicts of Interest
FCC Level 1
Additional Information:
The Vendor Information Pages Database is the only Federally controlled database in which a legal verification process is used to determine service disabled or veteran status of a small business. All companies participating in the Veterans First program under PL 109-461 are required to submit evidence of ownership / control and veteran status before being awarded a VA contract under the set-aside authority.