OMB Issues Memo Agency AWTF Obligations

The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memo

instructing agencies holding certain kinds of contracts

to deposit fees into the acquisition workforce training

fund, designed to augment agency training and education

funds for the development of the acquisition workforce


“Executive agencies are required to deposit fees

generated by government-wide contracts to the AWTF

account. The fund will be credited with five percent of

the fees collected by non-DoD executive agencies under

the following contracts: government-wide task and

delivery-order contracts entered into under sections

303H and 303I of the Federal Property and Administrative

Services Act of 1949; government-wide contracts for the

acquisition of information technology as defined in

section 11101 of title 40, U.S.C., and multi-agency

acquisition contracts for such technology authorized by

section 11314; and, multiple-award schedule contracts

entered into by the Administrator of General Services,”

said the memo.


It said the AWTF was established under the Services

Acquisition Reform Act of 2003, Title XIV, Section 1412

of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal

2004 -P.L. 108-136.


The General Services Administration will manage the fund

through the Federal Acquisition Institute to ensure the

civilian workforce is sufficiently trained to acquire

property and services, according to OMB.


GSA will send payment instructions for crediting the fund

to all civilian agency heads. For information about these

instructions contact Bill Wilson at GSA on (202) 208-6925,

or Lesley Field at the Office of Federal Procurement

Policy at (202) 395-4761.

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