DISTRIBUTION – SDL No. 169
NON-STANDARD DISTRIBUTION:
COMMANDANT INSTRUCTION 1550.26
FORCECOM COMMERCIALLY CONTRACTED “C” SCHOOL COURSES
(a) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Subpart 1.6
(b) Performance, Training, and Education Manual, COMDTINST M1500.10 (series)
(c) Training Evaluation Policy, COMDTINST 1550.23 (series)
(d) Financial Resource Management Manual-Procedures (FRMM-P), COMDTINST
M7100.4 (series)
1. PURPOSE. This Instruction establishes FORCECOM’s commercially contracted “C” school
policy for program managers (PM), contracting officers (KO), contract specialists (KS),
contracting officer’s representatives (COR), resource managers (RM), training managers
(TM), course managers (CM), Performance Systems Branches (PSBs)/Training Centers
(TRACENs) and the Education & Training Quota Management Command (ETQC) to meet
the demands of a dynamic work environment in accordance with References (a)-(d). Nothing
in this instruction pre-empts the authority of Unit Commanding Officers and Officers in
Charge to procure commercially contracted training as identified by the Unit Training Board,
as outlined in Reference (b) and subject to appropriations limitations which prevent the use of
operating funds to contract for training provided by FORCECOM enterprise.
2. ACTION. All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge,
deputy or assistant commandants, and chiefs of Headquarters staff elements must comply
with the provisions of this Instruction. Internet release is authorized.
3. DIRECTIVES AFFECTED. None.
4. BACKGROUND. Commercially contracted “C” schools expand the Coast Guard’s ability to
provide the skills and knowledge required to support field performance. Requirements and
management practices related to commercially contracted training were not standardized.
Contract attainment and life cycle management, course initiation, course delivery, and course
evaluation were not clearly defined. Additional barriers to successful execution of
commercially contracted “C” schools include but are not limited to:
FORCECOM
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1550.26
DEC 2018
