ASI Government is a premier provider of training and tools that help professionals achieve better acquisition and program/project management results through the application of leading practices. Graduates of our courses leave equipped with the knowledge and skills to transform acquisition and management processes and become change agents to achieve mission success and improve business results.
ASI's Training Institute offers both traditional classroom training, as well as online instruction, through subscriptions to our Applied Learning Online™ product.
Performance-Based Acquisition – The Foundation of our Courses
Since 1996, ASI has been at the forefront of initiatives to transform how the government conducts performance-based acquisitions.
ASI was the sole industry partner on the government-wide team that conceived and developed the Seven Steps to Performance-Based Services Acquisition Guide – widely cited as the definitive process to develop performance-based acquisitions. This innovative methodology takes a life-cycle approach to PBA that yields true performance-based contracts which directly link to mission objectives.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) subsequently adopted the Seven Steps as the federal standard for performance-based contracting.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) has also endorsed the Seven Steps to Performance-Based Services Acquisition Guide as the definitive source for performance-based acquisition guidance, policies, and best practices.
ASI continues to maintain the Seven Steps Guide, which serves as the foundation of our courses.
Applied Learning: Online, On Site, or a Blend of Both
ASI's Applied Learning approach breaks the rules of traditional training conventions by delivering targeted training modules designed to be taken in 1-2 hour increments.
Today's professionals seek learning and development opportunities that are targeted, focused, relatively short, and connected to their work. ASI's Applied Learning offerings are designed expressly to meet this purpose. Developed with extensive input from our government customers, our Applied Learning modules are focused on delivering practical knowledge that trainees can readily and immediately apply on the job.
We deliver Applied Learning courses two ways:
Onsite - at your facility or at ASI's Training Institute in Arlington, VA
Whether online, onsite, or a blend of both, ASI takes an innovative approach to training your team with the knowledge and insight needed to become high-performing acquisition, program, and project management professionals.
Which Applied Learning solution best fits the needs of your organization?
ASI offers a range of traditional classroom training options to meet the learning needs of acquisition and program professionals — no matter how large or small the workforce. Our Training Institute faculty is experienced in developing learning programs to address a variety of outcomes and goals.
All courses offered by the ASI Training Institute are available to the government in a group class format, tailored to your agency's individual requirements.
ASI has nearly a decade-long track record developing and customizing training content targeted to federal acquisition and program and project management personnel with each course relating the supporting federal acquisition laws and regulations. ASI can custom develop for your agency both classroom and online courses.
Customized Classroom Courses
The ASI Government Training Institute™ (the Training Institute) offers a proven curriculum of training offerings, including curriculum development and maintenance.
Using a combination of leading practices acquired in our consulting services engagements, continuing research, and our in-depth knowledge and subject matter expertise of the current acquisition community, ASI develops and customizes courses to equip participants with specialized skills and knowledge of leading acquisition and program management practices, while complying with current policy directives and human capital initiatives.
Customized Online Training
In addition to developing custom classroom/instructor led courses, ASI has the tools, experience and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to build 508 and SCORM Compliant online courses for your agency, which can be deployed worldwide. Online courses are built in video-enhanced instructor-driven or text-based student-driven style and function. Courses incorporate customized font, color, logo, testing criteria and graphics based on your agency's standards and requirements. Online courses can be hosted on your agency learning management system (LMS) or provided as an HTML file for your website.
The ASI Custom Training Difference
Substantial experience building customized training solutions developed in conjunction with agencies' requirements and designed to support organizational transformation by targeting the roles and responsibilities of the workforce.
Training that's not "one-size-fits-all" but that addresses specific requirements, policies, processes and procedures of each agency, integrating them into each lesson.
Unparalleled instructors, including some of the most highly sought-after practitioners in the field of federal acquisition and performance-based acquisition management.
Extensive and Relevant Field Experience shared by a talented staff with a strong track record supporting agencies across the federal government and incorporated into highly interactive and engaging learning sessions.
Experienced and specialized hands-on subject matter experts (SMEs) who lend their expertise to course development and customization in all areas of Federal Acquisition, Program/Project Management, COR competencies, and Integrated Project Team (IPT) functions.
Acquisition professionals who support the ASI Government Virtual Acquisition Office™ leveraged throughout course development and customization efforts.
Application of ASI's knowledge management expertise, including peer reviews of subject matter experts in development, 'hot washes' after each course to incorporate student questions and feedback to create a cycle of continuous improvement, and quarterly reviews of the courses by subject matter experts on new material.
Representative Custom Courses
ASI has developed or customized federal government training in the following areas:
Performance-Based Acquisition
Performance-Based Project Management
FAR Overview and Intensive Workshop
SOW Requirements Writing Workshop
SOO Requirements Writing Workshop
PWS Requirements Writing Workshop
FPDS Verification & Validation Training
Earned Value Management Executive Overview
Earned Value Management Workshop
Getting Onboard with Contracting (Acquisition Intern Program)
Cost-Technical Trade-Off Analysis
Contracting Officer's Representative Workshop
Independent Government Cost Estimate Workshop
Social Media
Multiple Award Schedules (Various Aspects of Using MAS)
Procurement Basics for Program Managers
Sample custom online training modules developed for various agencies, include:
COTR Overview
Developing a PWS/SOO
Conducting Effective Market Research
Developing an Independent Government Cost Estimate
Source Selection: Technical Evaluation
Becoming a Strategic Business Advisor
Appropriations
Social Media
Representative Student Feedback
"...the very best class on SOW and basic procurement I have ever attended" – Custom SOW Class
"The use of a draft SOO from (my agency) helped focus the course to (my agency) issues. Excellent idea." – Custom SOO Class
"The instructors tailored this course specific to our needs and our contract". – Tailored DAU Services Acquisition Workshop
"My EVMS understanding went from 0 to 8 out of 10. Now I want to dissect and redesign the MIP. This would have been excellent when the MIP first rolled out." – Custom EVM Workshop
"We brought our own SOWs and used them for the exercises. This was very helpful since Ronne was able to help us apply what we were learning directly to our contract." – Tailored PWS and QASP Writing Workshop
"Most beneficial: Hands-on type application with my actual requirements with the instructor available to teach and assist." – Tailored PWS and QASP Writing Workshop
"I think we may be able to use the "case examples" we created in the future and it may save a lot of time and provide a good starting point." – Tailored PBA and PBPM Courses
"Excellent instructor!!! I really enjoyed the course work coupled with real-life situations/solutions." – Tailored PBA Course
"Provided great real life experience relevant to this lesson. Engaged in interaction with the audience." – Custom Getting Onboard with Contracting Course
"Would highly recommend all contracting personnel take this course. Very effective." – Custom Cost-Technical Trade-Off Analysis Class
"This was very important training!" – Custom Cost-Technical Trade-Off Analysis Class
"Class was very beneficial. Today and yesterday were some of the best classes I've had since working for the government, which was 1993." – Custom IGCE Workshop
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