§ 303.104-12 - Ethics program training requirements.

(a) The Office of Acquisition and Grants Management in the Office of Management and Acquisition (OAGM), Office of Management and Budget in the Office of the Secretary is responsible for developing a training module which can be used by the Department's OPDIVs and Regional offices to train procurement officials. Upon receipt of the module, each OPDIV and Regional Office must train the procurement officials set forth in 303.104-4(h)(1) before they can act as procurement officials.

(b) After the training has been completed, each procurement official must sign the “Procurement Official's Certificate of Procurement Integrity” before he/she can act as a procurement official on any procurement. The certificate shall be submitted to the servicing personnel office, where the certificate will be filed on the left side of the employee's Official Personnel Folder. A copy of the certificate shall be provided to the contract office which shall maintain a list of the procurement officials who have signed the certificates.

(c) Procurement officials who serve multiple contracting offices (such as procurement lawyers) shall submit copies of their certificates to OAGM with the originals being transmitted to their servicing personnel office. OAGM shall maintain a list of such procurement officials and inform cognizant contracting officers upon telephonic request whether particular individuals are included on the list.