How This Seminar Works
	1. This live seminar consists of two 90-minute, high quality conference calls combined with your choice of printed or Internet-posted slides. 2. The day before the seminar, you will be emailed a toll-free telephone number to access the audio portion of the live seminar session. The seminar's slides will be attached to the email as a PDF file, and a Website link will be provided so you can view the slides on the Internet if you prefer. Phone calls originating from outside of the USA and Canada will be a toll call billed to you by your telephone service provider. 3. A few minutes before the seminar is to begin, you will call the toll-free phone number to access the audio portion of the seminar. You can follow the visual portion of the presentation by using the printed PDF files or by viewing the Internet-posted slides on your computer screen. 4. A professional moderator will manage the seminar teleconference and there will be ample opportunity to ask questions. All participants will hear both the question and the instructor's response. After the seminar is over, further questions can be directed to the instructor via email.

One of the difficulties facing companies that want to do business with the federal government is understanding all the jargon and formats used to describe and categorize project costs and budgets.

Companies that want to be competitive need to sharply refine their project estimating techniques and often have to add extra reporting and tracking to accommodate government contracting methods.

This course provides a comprehensive review of government terminology and clearly illustrates how all the parts of the government cost review are intended to fit together. By understanding how the government views your costs you can bid smarter and win more jobs at higher margins.

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What You will Learn

· How to break the code of how Government views costs in contracting

· Demystify Management Reserves and Fees in Government projects

· Learn to critically read and analyze the RFP for scoping

· Expertly perform a quantity take-off and compare to RFP quantities

· Get a simple format and tools to develop your cost estimates

· Unscramble the complex components of labor estimating and productivity

· Learn to develop labor cost elements in a composite wage rate

· Simple ways to build up material composite rates including wastes & shipping

Agenda A Few Definitions. US Government Estimating and Contracting Jargon & Concepts Scoping, Work Breakdowns Structures & Takeoffs Basic Scoping Work breakdown Structures Quantity Take-Offs Questions and Clarifications Material Cost Elements: Estimating Material Prices Shipping & Delivery Commitments & Contracts Labor Cost Elements: Estimating Unit Man-Hours Installation Rates Productivity Factors Labor Billing Rates Crew Makeup and Staffing Crew Up Labor Billing Rates Production Estimating.

Your Instructor

Keith Custer, PE has over 30 years of consulting and management experience and is an expert in project estimating, cost engineering, project scheduling, and earned value project management. Mr. Custer is a professional Electrical Engineer and has been involved in estimating technical projects ranging from Nuclear Power electric generation and control systems, landfill monitoring controls, office telephony systems, international voice and data communications systems, computer systems, custom software development, and major package software applications like Financials, CIS, HR, CRM, MMIS, PMO, and ERP in wide range of industries including electric power, insurance, financial, retail, manufacturing, health care, environmental, and customer service.

Mr. Custer has served as CIO and systems strategy planner and has operated his professional consulting, estimating, and management services company for over 20 years and has estimated, scheduled, and managed numerous technical projects and program offices including on-shore and off-shore staffing for companies such as Keane, IMRglobal, and Computer Aid Inc. Additionally, Mr. Custer has directly provided professional estimating Bechtel, SWEC, Comanco, Oracle, and Marriott as well as for numerous utilities customers such as FPL, NUSCO, MPL, Centerior, TECO, PECO, PPL, PSEG, SMUD, and GSU. service.

Who Should Attend this Seminar

If you are serious about winning Government contracts you need to understand government jargon and learn how to build and display a comprehensive estimate. This seminar will benefit will benefit a wide variety of organizations in the electric power, utility, financial and energy industries, including executives, sales professionals, large and small business owners, procurement managers, technology managers, engineers, and cost accountants, as well as business area experts and business managers looking to sell complex technical systems.

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Prerequisites

This fundamental level, group live seminar has no prerequisites. No advance preparation is required before the seminar.

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