Contracting Skills Championship

I just read an article that featured memory competitions. For example, at the USA Memory Championship, participants compete in 10 events. One event involves memorizing random digits in a short time and repeating as many as possible. Another is memorizing the order of a card deck and repeating it as fast as possible.

I think a similar competition, call it the Contracting Skills Championship, would be a novel way to promote technical skills that new contract specialists need to learn. Possible events could be:

• Mock negotiations
• Analyzing risk in a statement of work in under 5 minutes
• Come up with as many solutions as possible to a scenario in under a minute
• Fill out a CAR in FPDS as fast as possible
• Find 10 files as quickly as possible
• Answer a customer’s question as quickly as possible
• Research 3 random questions in the FAR as fast as possible