Contract Management school training courses in Austin, TX (public, in-house or online)

This course examines processes through which goods and services are acquired in the project management environment. Topics include contract and procurement strategies; legal issues; contract pricing alternatives; technical, management and commercial requirements; RFP development; source selection; invitations to bid; bid evaluation; risk assessment; and contract negotiation and administration

This course is an introduction to financial and contract management for technical managers. Topics include financial and management accounting (including elementary accounting principles, assets, liabilities, and stockholders’ equity); direct and indirect costs, revenues, and profits; indices to financial position; use of financial reports; return on investment, net present value; internal rate of return; and financial management (including cash and funds flow statements). An introduction t...

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3 days. This course presents the current issues, procedures, tools and techniques for managing software subcontracts. It covers the types of trade-offs and decisions necessary to determine when a subcontract should be pursued, how to organize to subcontract and how to set up the project team to move forward with the subcontracting effort. It includes a discussion of the 18 criteria for a subcontracting decision and an exercise for applying these criteria to different situations. Participants wil...

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