Optimize Performance Contracts Including Combining Funding Streams

Learn strategies to optimize performance contracts, including the leveraging effect of combining funding streams. Examine the savings, costs, and other variables that generate the DOE eProject Builder financial schedules, including analysis of eProject Builder schedules and their relationship to the project's financial goals of contract maximum terms, project size, project risks, and more. This session will discuss performance contract cost reasonableness and identify federal and industry resources to help you get started. The session concludes with a discussion of the acquisition requirements from a contracting officer perspective for a performance contract task order award.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Recognize strategies to optimize performance contracts by effectively combining funding streams and other strategies;
• Identify the basics of eProject Builder schedules and their relationship to project financial goals, including contract term limits, project size, and risk profile;
• Recognize the cost reasonableness of performance contracts using federal and industry benchmarks;
• Identify acquisition requirements and processes for awarding a performance contract task order from a Contracting Officer’s perspective.