Contract parameters
SOW sections
Forms
Contracting Pitfalls
100

This is Phase 1 of the contracting process

What is Plan Procurement?

100

This section provides a short statement of the objective within the SOW

What is the Purpose? 

100

This is the acronym for a form that pertains to security requirements

What is an SRCL? (Security Requirements Check List)

100

This contract no-no involves hiring the BSM's BFF for an upcoming school concert

What is Conflict of Interest?

200

This is the Phase where the bid evaluation begins

What is Phase 2: Execute Procurement

200

This section includes the description of the things to be performed to reach objectives as indicated

What are tasks?

200

This form is needed if contracting a retired member of the RCA band 

What is a Former Public Service Declaration

200

This contract faux pas happens when we hire a specific guest artist for the Holiday concerts because we like them and we've done it that way for years.

What is Payrolling?

300

The responsibility for defining the requirement, including description of the product and/or performance criteria belongs to this person of authority

Who is a technical authority (TA)?

300
Describes the requirement at a high level

What is the Scope of Work?

300

This form is needed when there's an oopsie-daisy in the contract that needs to be changed

What is an amendment?

300

This occurs when the contractor and bidder are in cahoots with each other

What is Employee-Employer relationship?

400

These are the basic guiding principles for procurement and contracting 

Openness, fairness, transparency

400
This section summarizes the outputs that the contractor must provide ie. a list of all rehearsals/performances

What are deliverables

400

This form - in addition to the Former Public Service declaration - is needed when contracting a singular human. It can be signed off by the CO stating that the risk has been assessed.

What is contracting with an individual? 

400

When Sarah Willis gets hired for school concerts, but you need another horn player in a few months so you might as well hire her for that too because you need that sweet, sweet 4th Horn firepower.

What is Contract Splitting?