Contracting 101
A U.S. Federal Government civilian or military individual with the authority to enter into, administer, and/or terminate contracts on behalf of the United States.
What is a Contracting Officer?
This is the primary regulation document for acquisitions contacted by all federal agencies.
What is the Federal Acquisition Regulation?
This section includes the Solicitation or Contract form
What is Section A?
This is the Primary Procure-to-Pay (P2P) application for the Department of Defense.
What is the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE)?
This objective of this phase is to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of the proposed Federal Research /R&D efforts and to determine the quality of performance of the small business awardee organization prior to providing further Federal support
What is SBIR Phase I?
All contractors must be registered here in order to receive federal contract awards.
What is the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov)?
This is the Department of Defense's supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation
What is the DOD Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)?
Important attachments to a contract or solicitation are found here
What is Section J?
This module in PIEE supports the receipt, acceptance, and payment process.
What is Wide Area Workflow (WAWF)?
This is used by Government agencies for acquisition of basic and applied research and that part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement.
What is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)?
This individual assists in the technical monitoring or administration of a contract
What is a Contracting Officer's Representative?
This document provides procedures that are applicable to Marine Corps Systems Command acquisitions
What is the MARCORSYSCOM Contracts Acquisition procedures (MCAP)?
In a solicitation, this section may contain a statement of objectives. In the resultant contract, it will contain a statement of work or performance work statement.
What is Section C?
This system tracks all contract actions beginning with the requirements package
What is PMT - Procurement Management Tool?
The objective of this phase is to continue research and build and test prototypes.
What is SBIR Phase II?
DAU provides this generalized order of events in the acquisition contracting process
What is the Contracting Subway Map?
This document establishes uniform Department of the Navy (DON) policies and procedures both implementing and supplementing the FAR and DFARS
What is the Navy Marine Corps Acquisition Regulation Supplement (NMCARS)?
Included in this section are solicitation provisions that require representations, certifications, or submission of other information by offerors
What is Section K?
This system processes all contract actions from solicitation to closeout
What is PD2/SPS (Procurement Desktop Defense/Standard Procurement System)?
SBIR Phase I awards can not exceed this dollar amount.
What is $240,000?
This contract type is appropriate when the Government anticipates the need for certain services and/or supplies, but the exact quantities and delivery dates are unknown.
What is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract (ID/IQ)?
This FAR Subpart outlines the use, evaluation, and exercise of options.
What is FAR Subpart 17.2?
These sections are included in solicitations but are not in the resultant contracts
What are Sections K, L, and M?
This is the Navy's electronic platform used for acquiring support services in 22 functional areas.
What is SEAPORT-E?
This is a sister program to SBIR, established by Congress in 1992 with a similar statutory purpose. A major difference in the two programs is that the this sister program requires the small business to have a research partner consisting of a University, Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), or a qualified non-profit research institution.
What is The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program?