RPA for Acquisition Professionals: From Idea to Working Flow. Course preview (103 s)

TAC contracts for major VA IT programs, and this RFI asks for RPA readiness across its workforce. The course is built around that work.

Here is a short preview of our three-day live course for TAC. By the end, staff can spot a good automation candidate and build a first working flow.

Day one: RPA basics and VA-aligned demos on synthetic data. Day two: bot logic, exceptions and audit logging. Day three: brainstorming, the lab and a capstone.

Students judge each process with a written checklist that covers VA data sensitivity and Section 508.

Groups then place their own TAC processes, such as purchase request intake or a contract file check, on an impact-effort matrix.

In the lab, each student builds one flow in Power Automate: a new request in a SharePoint list is checked for required fields.

Then they test it. A complete request is marked ready for review and a Teams message goes out.

The run history shows a failed run, the reason and how to resubmit. All lab data is sample data.

At TAC, the same flow could check a purchase request package for required documents and tell the contract specialist it is ready.

I teach every session live, with a second team member in every session, mostly helping in the lab.

The first course is $22,000 for up to 25 students, and each repeat is $7,000.