{"id":3556,"date":"2018-03-03T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndsbmcp.org\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:09:29","slug":"procurement-officer-certificate-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/procurement-officer-certificate-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement Officer Certificate Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ND Procurement Officer Certification Program was established by OMB in 2002 to provide employees responsible for purchasing with training related to the type of procurement they conduct.\u00a0Contact the OMB State Procurement Office at<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"mailto:infospo@nd.gov\">infospo@nd.gov<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">or 701.328.2740 if you have questions or would like to coordinate special training for your agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Procurement Officer Certification program consists of three levels.\u00a0The certification levels match the competition threshold levels.\u00a0Each level provides core training that is a building block for the next higher level.\u00a0 Each level is a pre-requisite for the next level.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"bold-ckeditor\">Level 1 Certification <\/span>is intended for state employees who make small purchases $2,500 and below.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This online course overviews the state procurement program, ethics, small purchase procedures, state sources of supply, printing, and the State Purchasing Card Program. (1-1\/2 hours)\u00a0If you do not have access to ELM Training in PeopleSoft contact 701.328.2740.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span class=\"bold-ckeditor\">1\/2 affiliate credit available<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"bold-ckeditor\">Level 2 Certification<\/span>\u00a0is intended for employees who make purchases $2,500.01 to\u00a0\u00a0$25,000.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This classroom course overviews informal competition procedures, environmentally preferable and biobased procurement, risk management, vendor registration, Alternate Procurement Requests, protests and appeals (7 hours).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1 affiliate credit available<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"bold-ckeditor\">Level 3 Certification<\/span>\u00a0is intended for employees who make purchases over $25,000.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This classroom course overviews Invitations for Bid, Request for Proposals, and Contract Administration (7 hours).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1 affiliate credit available<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nd.gov\/omb\/state-employee\/training\/topics\/procurement-officer-certification-training\">Upcoming Procurement Training<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can receive up to 2.5 credits for attending all certification classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To receive affiliate credits, have the<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/affiliate-credit-form.pdf\">Affiliate<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/affiliate-credit-form.pdf\"> Credit Slip<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">signed by an event sponsor at the end of the class, and return it to<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"mailto:pattyverdouw@ndsba.org\">Patty VerDouw<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">at the NDSBA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ND Procurement Officer Certification Program was established by OMB in 2002 to provide employees responsible for purchasing with training &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/procurement-officer-certificate-training\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndsbmcp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}