The California Procurement and Contracting Academy (CalPCA) offers acquisition-related training to California state acquisition professionals in three modes: self-paced on-demand courses, instructor-led webinar courses, and face-to-face, in-classroom courses.

Learning Paths

The entry-level BC course introduces new California state acquisition professionals to the world of IT and Non-IT Goods and Services procurement.

Read more about BC

To gain a deeper understanding and additional procurement training, state acquisition professionals attend IC workshops.

Read more about IC

This learning path is designed especially for state employees in supervisor and management positions, or in Career Executive Assignments.
Read more about EC

Enroll in CalPCA Courses

To enroll in CalPCA courses, go to CalPCA Online, the DGS Procurement virtual training center.

For help creating a CalPCA Online user profile, see Student Getting Started Guide
For help setting up for online CalPCA webinars, see Webinar Walkthrough

Contact

CalPCA

Department of General Services
Procurement Division

707 Third Street, Second Floor
West Sacramento, CA 95605

 

Phone: (916) 375-4628
Email: CalPCAonline@dgs.ca.gov