Contract Manager Training & Certification

Requirements for Standard Contract Management/Procurement Training

The training must be contract management/procurement related.

The training must have a written agenda or course outline or equivalent for record and audit purposes. PLEASE do not submit the handouts and/or workbooks.

Each participant must receive some form of documentation that they attended and completed the training, preferably a class attendance certificate or class sign in sheet. If a certificate is not available, a memo from your manager or director with the following information:

The name of the person receiving the training.
The date(s) of the training.
Number of training hours conducted.

Did you know: To determine relevance, compare the training in question to its applicability with the five core processes of contract management as outlined in the State of Texas Contract Management Guide:

Planning
Procurement
Contract Formation
Rate/Price Establishment
Contract Administration

Effective Date: June 15, 2010

Other sources of contract management training include colleges, universities, state agencies and not-for-profit educational groups such as those listed below.

In addition to any continuing education courses offered by the TPASS, we suggest the following courses:

All NIGP and local chapter sponsored courses and seminars. Check out the on-line courses on their Web site at: www.nigp.org.
All ISM (NAPM) and local chapter sponsored courses and seminars. See their Web site at: www.ism.ws/. They have on-line courses too.
All NCMA sponsored courses and seminars. See their Web site at: http://www.ncmahq.org.
Purchasing related courses offered by the State Auditor's Office. See their Web site at: www.sao.state.tx.us/apps/iatraining/coursequery.cfm.
Procurement, Contract Management or Negotiations courses offered by Department of Information Resources. See their Web site at: http://www.dir.state.tx.us/education/index.htm.

College level courses related to procurement activities.

Any of these qualified college courses of three semester hours or more will satisfy the annual continuing education requirement of at least 24 hours. Academic classes such as:

Accounting (e.g., general accounting, cost accounting, managerial accounting)
Communication (e.g., written communication, public speaking, organizational communication)
Computers (e.g., management information systems, data processing)
Contracts (e.g., contract administration, contract negotiations, contract management, cost and price analysis)
Economics (e.g., managerial economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics)
Ethics (e.g., business ethics)
Finance (e.g., business finance, governmental finance, financial management)
Law (e.g., business law, contract law, legal environment of business)
Management (e.g., organization theory, organ. behavior, public admin., project mgmt., corporate policy)
Personnel (e.g., personnel management, performance appraisal, employee development)
Purchasing/Materials Management (e.g., purchasing management, materials management, inventory control)
Quantitative Methods (e.g., business statistics, quantitative analysis, production operations management)
Transportation (e.g., physical distribution, traffic management, logistics)

TPASS Contract Management and/or Purchasing Training Courses.

In the event you fail to meet the continuing education requirement, your certification will expire. You will be required to take the certification exam and reapply for certification and pay the appropriate fees.