Prezmil2020

Good Morning, Over the past two years my contracting office has seen a large turnover in contracting personnel. Many of the experienced Contracting Officers have retired and new recruits have taken their place. While these new associates are taking the mandatory CON courses, I would like to establish a knowledge center in our office to help them apply what they learned in class to their work. This can also be a great source for the more experienced Contracting Officers as well. With that said, I am asking that you share with the group any books, publications, and literature regarding the FAR, SOWs, RFPs, RFQs, BPAs, IDIQs, and any other acquisition topics that you feel a new contracting professional would need to know. In other words, assume that all of the supervisors are at a meeting and a new recruit needs to know the difference between FAR 12 and FAR 13 but has nobody to ask. Rather than read the FAR and just regurgitate the clauses and parapraphs I would like them to know how to apply the FAR or DFARS, GSAM, etc. I would like to know what helped you in your careers. To get things started, I am recommending the book, How To Write A Statement of Work, by Peter S. Cole. This book is an overview of what should go in a SOW and how it should properly be written. Thanks, Prezmil2020