What are these new policies from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP)?
The first is OFPP Policy Letter 05-01 found at http://www.fai.gov/pdfs/policy0501.pdf. This policy letter establishes new training requirements for the entire civilian acquisition workforce and new certifications in targeted acquisition career fields. It mandates the workforce’s use of a federally based training database, ACMIS. The policy letter also establishes a new position, Acquisition Career Manager (ACM), at each agency, to monitor and manage the training and certification of the acquisition workforce within their agency. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy Letter 05-01 applies to all of the federal executive agencies. The second is Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo, dated 06-01 found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement/acq_wk/fac_contracting_program.pdf. This memo establishes the requirements and guidance for the Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C), which is a federally recognized program for the acquisition workforce that sets forth
