Acquisition Planning and Post Award Competencies
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Discuss Acquisition planning and Post Award Competencies. Relate this to business, the military, or any type of non-profit organization.
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STATEMENT 1:When discussing acquisition planning, I found a great definition used by the Department of Energy, which states acquisition planning is the process by which the efforts of all personnel responsible for an acquisition are coordinated and integrated through a comprehensive plan for fulfilling the agency’s needs in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost. It includes developing an overall strategy for managing acquisitions. This definition is extremely relatable for someone like myself in military aircraft maintenance because let us just say we have an airplane broke for engine problems, as a crew chief I would be on the spot as the aircraft returns to the parking area to discuss said problems with the pilot. After the problem is diagnosed and an engine specialist would then look through the technical data to decide what part or component would fix this problem. After we decided what part and looked it up through the parts database, we would then head inside and speak with our local supply personnel to order the part and hopefully receive it later that day. Most military assets are researched in time, and often we end up needing three quotes from different suppliers, which is sometimes unfortunate, choosing the cheapest option. Post-award competencies are when the contract has been signed and agreements have been made. I see this phase of the game pretty much relaxed, with constant monitoring of contract/project completion. This reminds me of a moving company at which initially we sit down and discuss prices, day of move and day of delivery and drop off day. When my things are picked up and waiting for them to deliver my belongings, we reach post-award competencies.
-Matthew
STATEMENT 2:Acquisition planning can be termed as a technique through which responsible individual’s efforts are integrated and coordinated in a comprehensive plan particularly used to fulfill the organizational needs at the most appropriate time and at the most effective price. Acquisition planning may involve enhancing the company’s overall strategy to control the acquisition. Post award competences include significant work conducted over the period of award dates and they may include implementing the grant, progress reporting, and closeout requirement accomplishment (Rendon, 2019). In business acquisition may include integrating the efforts of employees and the leaders to enhance and ensure that long term goals are timely and effectively achieved. In military, acquisition planning may involve bringing together all the military personnel to coordinate and explain to them the yearly target to make sure they understand their goals. In business post award competencies may include activities such as vender performance assessment and analyses, ensuring compliances and conditions and terms, enhancing requirements such as those of production, production and transporting to the consumers. Post award competences for military may include activities such as implementing the procedures and policies for contracts, monitoring the progress of the contract and assessing the results of the contract to access if it is well accomplished.
Part 7 – Acquisition planning | Acquisition.GOV. (n.d.). Acquisition.GOV | www.acquisition.gov. https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-7
Rendon, R. G. (2019). Enhancing professional and technical excellence: Analysis of contract management competency models. Acquisition Research Program.
-Aaron