Recent News

The Chief Acquisition Officers Council is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Acquisition & Program Management Excellence Awards. These awards recognize exceptional performance across the federal acquisition workforce.

A key component of FAC-C Modernization is a Contracting Certification Exam that will be required for new contracting professionals who have not previously held any FAC-C or DAWIA certification.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is modernizing the Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C).

Bookmark the FAI Student Training Guidebook! The guidebook is a resource for federal civilian agency acquisition workforce students, acquisition career and training managers, training and development vendors, and others who participate in Federal Acquisition Certification training.

If you’re a contracting professional, watch this video to learn about the future of the FAC-C framework and what it means for you. 

FAI and OFPP have released a new online course, FAC 098 Contract Innovation Exploration, in FAI CSOD.

A new online course, FAC 097 Navigating Buy American and Trade Agreements, is now available in FAI CSOD. This new course incorporates all of the changes from FAR Rule 2021-008, including the new domestic content requirements for Buy American, the new fallback threshold, as well as the new price evaluation preferences for critical items and critical components.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Federal Acquisition Institute and Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) subject matter experts across federal civilian agencies updated the FAC-COR competency model. The revised model reflects the evolving environment of CORs and is better aligned with the current role of a COR.

We are pleased to announce the new Continuous Learning Individual Progress (CLIP) dashboard in the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD) system. 

Important update! Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) Federal Acquisition Certification Continuous Learning requirements are scheduled to go back into effect on May 1, 2022. Read OFFP’s latest Acquisition Flash to learn more.