Winning in the Cost Volume

Course Information

Gain a strategic advantage by enhancing the skills of your proposal professionals who manage and prepare cost volumes by providing techniques and tools that support your claim to offer best value.

Winning in the Cost Volume

This interactive workshop builds practical skills through lecture, discussion, and skill-building exercises. The training addresses critical issues needed to gain a strategic advantage by enhancing the skills of the people who manage and prepare cost volumes:

• Understand how cost volumes are evaluated and what increases cost in evaluation
• Learn acceptable, allocable, and allowable costs
• Learn why and how to develop the RFP requirements checklist, CLIN, CDRL, WBS, and Program Control Matrix
• Learn to develop a WBS and WBS dictionary
• Develop appropriate and acceptable estimates
• Develop good task descriptions
• Develop defendable BOEs
• Learn the impact of and how to prepare for DCAA Fact Finding