Description | Instructor | Location | Cost | Schedule
Seminar:
Teaming Agreements for Small Business
What's involved:
As you grow your business, you need to know and understand how to protect your assets while subcontracting through larger primes and while bidding as a prime contractor on your own. Success in this arena involves teaming agreements, subcontracts, protection of intellectual property (such as data rights and computer software), and appropriately based protests. This series puts you in the driver's seat in these critical areas of
knowledge:
Winning Strategies for Teaming Agreements — Here's a practical, understandable guide to the formation and enforcement of teaming agreements in Federal procurements. It's an in-depth discussion of the ramifications to small businesses in such relationships as a prime or a sub. The attendees will learn everything they need to know to enter into enforceable teaming agreements in which their risks are minimized and oppressive clauses are eliminated or diluted. Non-Disclosure Agreements will also be discussed.
Winning Strategies for Subcontracts — You'll gain from this practical seminar on the formation and performance of subcontracts in Federal procurements, as a prime or a sub. Attendees will learn everything they need to know about the Federal law, regulations and policies which provide the framework for subcontracts. We'll follow through from initial subcontract formation, including contract terms and conditions, to subcontract administration, performance, disputes, terminations, and claims resolution. You will learn how to assess and minimize the risk factors involved in subcontracts, avoid or dilute oppressive clauses, and protect your intellectual property and proprietary data.
Intellectual Property Rights and Federal Procurement — This course will first provide a brief overview of intellectual property law (patents, copyrights, trade secrets), and then focus on rights in technical data and computer software in civilian and DOD contracts. Strategies for protecting intellectual property in Federal procurements will be covered, with advice on how contractors may maximize the value of their technical data and effectively license computer software.
What, When, Where and How to Protest Federal Procurements — This seminar will provide a roadmap of the Federal procurement protest process, discussing the working rules, procedures and substantive and procedural requirements of the various protest forums - the agency, the General Accountability Office, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the SBA. The preaward and postaward debriefing rules in negotiated procurements will be discussed and practical advice given on what, when, where and how to protest Federal procurements.
Real business experiences and tricks of the trade will be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific issues during informal meetings following each seminar with small business owners and business development professionals.
About the instructor:
Carmen Larsen has over 20 years of successful experience working with the Federal Government. She develops and prepares proposals, delivers presentations, and manages contractor teams that provide services to the Federal Government. She has assisted companies & mdash; in technical services, information technology, market research, training, conference planning, janitorial, office supplies, and construction industries — in finding opportunities, delivering presentations, obtaining recognition, and bidding on government proposals.
Cost:
You may register for an entire series or for individual classes. Pre-registration and full series offer the best values.
6-class Series: $1200
Individual Class: $300 pre-registered by Monday;
$500 walk-in registration.
Schedule:
Each session is six classes of four hours each. Each class includes real case stories, and weekday courses are followed by an optional hour
working lunch for discussion (bring your own cases to discuss).
Series A: Alternate Wednesdays, Noon-4 pm
With optional working lunch
March 19–May 28
Series B: Alternate Fridays, Noon-4 pm
With optional working lunch
March 21–May 30
Series C: Saturdays, 2 pm-6 pm
May 24–June 28