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Breakout Session I I I

301: Working With the End Users 302: Buying Under the New Federal

Requirements
How do you keep your end users happy
and still remain compliant? Are you hard Federal funding can provide additional rev-
with the end users or do you bend over enue streams, however complying with the
backward for them? How do you maintain procurement requirements can be difficult.
the balance? Is it better to say No, then go Join us as we discuss 2 CFR Part 200 and
back to them when you figure out how identify best practices to align your pro-
to get the job done? Or do you start out curement procedures with the federal re-
by saying, “Let me find out if I can make quirements.
it work”? If things are not perfect on the

requisition, do you fix it? Or do you give Presented By: Brian Lehrich - CliftonLar-
it back to the end user to fix? Are you a sonAllen
one man show? Do you feel that you give
too much? How does this affect your cur-
rent workload?

304: Best Practices to Avoid Audit
Presented By: Lari Staples - Peoria Uni-

fied School District, Claudia Leon - Para- Findings
dise Valley Unified School District, Lau- This session will discuss audit requirements,
ra Szymanoski - Dysart Unified School common deficiencies and identify the
District, Nancy Colbaugh - M o h a v e best practices to ensure your audit goes as

Educational Services Cooperative smoothly as possible.

Presented By: Jennifer Shields - Heinfeld
Meech & Co.

303: Multi-Year Quotes

Learn some practices for creating bi-annu-
al, annual and muti-year quotes for IFB’s

and RFP’s below the procurement thresh-
old. Like formal solicitations, quotes may
also be awarded based on evaluation crite-
ria, other than price.

Presented By: Bobby Williams II - Buck-

eye Elementary School District
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