This course is designed to strengthen students' understanding of the federal requirements when purchasing under a FEMA award in order to improve grant outcomes for FEMA award recipients and subrecipients. It includes lectures, discussion, small group activities, and individual practice activities.

Selection Criteria: Invitations and course announcements are sent to grantees directly from the Grants Programs Directorate. The target audience for this course is state, territorial, tribal, and local governments and private non-profits who are recipients or subrecipients of FEMA awards, and FEMA staff working with award recipients or subrecipients, including Grants Program Staff, Public Assistance Staff, OCC Staff, CRC Staff, and JFO Staff.

The learner must achieve a minimum passing score of 75% on final knowledge assessments or demonstrate mastery on performance assessments or research assignments to earn the IACET CEU. 

Course Objectives

• Distinguish between state and non-state entities and understand the federal regulations that apply to each entity type.
• Evaluate if a recipient or subrecipient's actions are restrictive of competition.
• Assess an entity's procurement need to determine the appropriate method of procurement and the federal requirements for using that method.
• Determine which contract provisions apply to a given contract.
• Review a procurement contract and identify areas of non-compliance with the federal regulations. 

Mission Areas

• Mitigation

Disciplines

• Emergency Management

Primary Core Capability