This course focuses upon developing the key document in the acquisition process - a statement of work (SOW) and stresses legal do's and don'ts as well as procedures and steps for developing clear, complete, and concise SOW's for new acquisitions and task orders.

  • Identify their role, responsibilities, and teaming arrangements in developing SOW's
  • Understand the consequences of deficient SOW's
  • Apply step -by-step procedures to capture to SOW information including the POWER approach, task breakdown analysis, and activity analysis
  • Specify deliverables including hardware, software, technical data, documents and reprots
  • Define performance measures
  • Link performance measures to monetary and non-monetary incentives
  • Prepare a performance requirements summary
  • Develop a quality assurance surveillance plan
  • Identify and describe Government-furnished property and information
  • Include, where appropriate, submittal requirements applicable to contractor work plans, schedules and personnel
  • Format SOW information and adapt the style to the informational component
  • Perform comprehensive and effective review of a SOW
                              October 22 -23, 2019    8:30 am - 4:30 pm      WO   Building 2, Room 2045