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The Contracting Education Academy, a Georgia Tech unit dedicated to supporting the professional education needs of the government’s contracting workforce, has launched a special webpage devoted to providing information and guidance dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on federal contracts.

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The webpage, located here, presents helpful information to both contracting officials and contractors who are navigating the current contracting environment.

Numerous topics are addressed on the webpage. For Contracting Officers and other members of the federal acquisition workforce, topics include:

Teleworking by contractor employees
Quarantine restrictions and excusable delays
Equitable adjustments
Extending performance periods
Contract modifications
Maintaining a contractor state of readiness
Application of the Stafford Act
Communication and transparency in contract administration
DoD emergency acquisition and preparedness
Tracking COVID-19 contract spending
The Defense Production Act
The Defense Priorities and Allocations System
GSA Schedule purchasing
Fraud and price gouging

For the contractor community, the following topics are addressed on the webpage:

Preventing workplace exposure and risks
Identifying critical infrastructure industries
The System for Award Management (SAM)
Excusable delay contract provisions
Changes clauses
Obligation to perform
The Defense Priorities and Allocations System
DoD progress payments
Sales through GSA Schedules
Advice for small businesses
Economic disaster loans
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Additional information and updates will be added as often as daily to the site. We suggest you bookmark the site now and check back frequently for the latest news involving the impact of coronavirus on federal contracts.

The government’s civilian acquisition workforce, long under pressure to improve hiring and modernize its skill sets, is feeling more satisfied with its own effectiveness, according to the latest biennial Acquisition Workforce Competency Survey released last week.

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Considered the most comprehensive version of the survey yet (an 83 percent increase in response rates across agencies), it showed that the buyers rated themselves highest for issuing contract order changes and modifications, awarding contracts and competition. Also rated highly were inspection and acceptance and business acumen, said the results analyzed by a partnership between the White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy and the Federal Acquisition Institute.

Areas rated the lowest in proficiency included negotiating forward pricing rates agreements and contracting in contingent or combat environments.

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Academy launches webpage containing Coronavirus information for contracting officers and contractors

The Contracting Education Academy, a Georgia Tech unit dedicated to supporting the professional education needs of the government’s contracting workforce, has launched a special webpage devoted to providing information and guidance dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on federal contracts.

Federal acquisition workers rate themselves highly on most skills

The government’s civilian acquisition workforce, long under pressure to improve hiring and modernize its skill sets, is feeling more satisfied with its own effectiveness, according to the latest biennial Acquisition Workforce Competency Survey released last week.

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