R.E.P. Categories/Fees/Contracts
1. What types of R.E.P.s exist? How are they different? 
2. What is a Charter Provider or Charter Global Provider?
3. Are the fees yearly, or does my organization only pay every three years during the quality review?
4. What does "or as required by applicable law" under Criterion 1 have to do with the contract between PMI and R.E.P.s?
Application Process
1. What is the best method for my organization to submit its R.E.P. Program Application and materials?
2. My organization has several courses it wishes to register in the R.E.P. Database. Do I submit them all for review? Is there a cost attached to the review of each one?
3. Can our organization submit and register programs, that is, a series of courses, with our application instead of individual courses?
4. My organization is considering requesting a “Face-to-Face Review” of its course materials. How does that process work?
PMI Components and the R.E.P. Program
1. Our component offers a variety of courses each year and contracts for services with other providers. What are the implications and requirements for the component with regard to our R.E.P. status?
Worldwide R.E.P. Provider Requirements
1. My organization is located in a non-English speaking country. Do you have translations of the R.E.P. Program Application and/or do we need to send our course materials to you in English only?
2. We offer project management courses primarily in English, but also in several other languages. How does our organization register additional language versions of the same course?
Project Management Professional (PMP®) Course Review/Teaching
1. Does the PMP reviewing the course need to be an outside contractor, or can it be staff?
2. Do all R.E.P. courses have to be taught by a PMP?
3. What documentation will a PMP need to submit to verify that he or she has reviewed the course before submitting an R.E.P. Program Application?
Assigning Professional Development Units (PDUs) to Registered Courses
1. How does my organization calculate PDUs for the courses it wishes to register?
2. How do we determine how many PDUs to award for distance education courses?
R.E.P. and PMI Intellectual Property
1. May I use figures (charts) and excerpts from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) in my training materials?
PMI Standards Alignment and R.E.P. Courses
1. Does a project management class need to be based on the PMBOK® Guide?
R.E.P. Applicant Appeals Process
1. What happens if a R.E.P. Program Application is rejected? Are there any restrictions for reapplying?
Presenting Licensed Course Material from a Current R.E.P.
1. I use the training materials from another R.E.P. How do I complete the application if I did not develop the course submitted for review?
Maintenance of R.E.P. Enrollment after Approval
1. How do I maintain my organization’s enrollment in the R.E.P. program? What do we do if we have personnel changes or wish to update our courses?
2. After my organization enrolls in the R.E.P. program, how do we register new courses in the R.E.P. database? What is the course approval turn around time?
Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.)Categories/Fees/Contracts
1. What types of Registered Education Providers R.E.P.s exist? How are they different?
There are five categories of R.E.P.s. All R.E.P.s must meet the same quality assurance requirements.
1. Provider: Training organizations offering a small selection of courses (typically three courses or less), $1,250.00 (US) yearly fee.
2. Global Provider: Training organizations offering multiple courses to the public or to private clients. Permitted to register an unlimited number of courses in the R.E.P. database, $1,750.00 (US) yearly fee.
3. Internal Training Provider: Training departments within corporations or government agencies that only provide courses for their own employees, $1,000.00 (US) yearly fee.
4. Cooperative Agreement Organization Provider: Organizations — typically other professional associations — that maintain a cooperating agreement with PMI, $750.00 (US) yearly fee.
5. PMI Component Provider: Chartered PMI chapters, specific interest groups (SIG) or PMI colleges offering courses to their members and the public, $500.00 (US) yearly fee.
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2. What is a Charter Provider or Charter Global Provider?
These are Providers and Global Providers that joined the R.E.P. Program in its first year and helped support the initial development of the program.
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3. Are the fees yearly, or does my organization only pay every three years during the quality review?
The R.E.P. fees are yearly fees. Once an organization is approved, the R.E.P. organization and course review process will take place on a three-year cycle. Back to Top
4. What does "or as required by applicable law" under Criterion 1 have to do with the contract between PMI and R.E.P.s?
Under Criterion 1 of the R.E.P. Program Application, providers are required to comply with all R.E.P. Provider responsibilities and procedures, and to conduct all educational and business operations in an ethical, professional and lawful manner as applies to the legal jurisdictions within which the organization does business.
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Application Process
1. What is the best method for my organization to submit its R.E.P. Program Application and materials?
PMI’s preferred method for R.E.P. Program Application and all documentation is electronic. You also may submit via fax transmission or postal service. See 
R.E.P. Program Application for details.
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2. My organization has several courses it wishes to register in the R.E.P. Database. Do I submit them all for review? Is there a cost attached to the review of each one?
Under the R.E.P. Program Application process, only the course materials from your organization’s primary offerings — one course submitted for each delivery method (face-to-face, distance, etc.) — must be submitted. At this time, there are no additional costs associated with additional course delivery method reviews. After approval, registration of additional courses is a simple process of registering them online using the R.E.P. Administrative Updates Site.
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3. Can our organization submit and register a program, that is, a series of courses, with our application instead of one individual course?
Only one set of course materials for one course per delivery method should be submitted with the R.E.P. Program Application. If a “program” of courses is part of an applicant R.E.P. Organization’s educational offerings, the remaining courses that make up the program should be registered after the applicant is approved into the R.E.P. Program.
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4. My organization is considering requesting a “Face-to-Face Review” of its course materials. How does that process work?
This is not the preferred method, but when an applicant selects to have its courses evaluated face-to-face by the reviewer, the applicant can:
- • Take material directly to the reviewer, wait while the course is being reviewed and retrieve materials when the review is completed
- • Participate in an online, in-depth quality review using the a Live Meeting web conferencing service
- • Request that a reviewer visit a site. Please note that any travel arrangements and additional expenses incurred with this option are the responsibility of the applicant
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PMI Components and the R.E.P. Program
1. Our component offers a variety of courses each year and contracts for services with other providers. What are the implications and requirements for the component with regard to our R.E.P. status?
All PMI chartered components can register their events in the R.E.P. database and issue Category 3 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for their programs and events whether or not they are registered in the R.E.P. Program. PMI components have the same course registration and advertising privileges as an R.E.P. The only reason that a PMI component may choose to enroll in the R.E.P. Program is if it would like to use the “R.E.P. Logo.” To ensure quality and consistent programs, PMI components giving PDUs for their events (whether developed themselves or contracted through another training provider) are required to adhere to the educational content, instructional design and delivery guidelines outlined in the PMI Chartered Component PDU Course Content Guidelines, posted to the most recent version of the PMI Component Policy Manual.
For more information regarding the process for PMI components to register and report PDUs, visit the Component Leadership website.
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Worldwide R.E.P. Provider Requirements
1. My organization is located in a non-English speaking country. Do you have translations of the R.E.P. Program Application and/or do we need to send our course materials to you in English only?
The R.E.P. Program Application must be completed in English. Course materials, however, do not need to be translated. PMI has Quality Reviewers who are fluent in a number of languages; translation services also are available, if needed.
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2. We offer project management courses primarily in English, but also in several languages. How does our organization register additional language versions of the same course?
Your organization may register one course and offer that same course in a number of other languages. If the content, duration and title of the course are the same, then that one course could be registered using one course number. The R.E.P. would need to indicate on the Course Description Form the languages in which the course is offered.
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Project Management Professional (PMP®) Course Review/Teaching
1. Does the PMP reviewing the course need to be an outside contractor, or can it be staff?
All courses submitted for registration in the R.E.P. Program must be reviewed and signed off by an active PMP. This individual may be on staff or under contract.
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2. Do all R.E.P. courses have to be taught by a PMP?
Only “PMP Prep Courses” offered by an R.E.P. organization must be conducted by a PMP. Other R.E.P. registered project management courses may be taught by instructors who have the educational requirements outlined in the R.E.P. Program Application, but it is not necessary that they be PMPs.
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3. What documentation will a PMP need to submit to verify that he or she has reviewed the course before submitting an R.E.P. Program Application?
A “PMP Course Review Checklist Sign-off” is included in the “Course Description Form” in the R.E.P. Program Application. The PMP completes this section and provides his/her PMP Certification Number and PMI ID Number.
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Assigning Professional Development Units (PDUs) to Registered Courses
1. How does my organization calculate PDUs for the courses it wishes to register?
One PDUs is earned for every hour spent in a planned, structured project management learning experience or activity. Fractions of PDUs may be awarded in 0.25 increments following one full hour of activity. Providers should establish the PDU value of a particular activity by using the number of estimated contact hours required to achieve the learning objectives of the activity. The PDUs attached to the course should equal the number of hours listed in the “duration of the course." A change in the duration, PDU credit or content of the course constitutes a new course that must be listed separately.
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2. How do we determine how many PDUs to award for distance education courses?
Typically, one PDU is earned for every hour spent in a planned, structured project management learning experience or activity. This type of calculation is successful for face-to-face seminars. However, distance education courses may have a wide range of “completion times.” Courses delivered via nontraditional means shall be assigned PDUs based on the average time in hours needed to complete the course by a minimum of 10 sample participants. Alternative methods of PDU assignment may be approved on a case-by-case basis.
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R.E.P. and PMI Intellectual Property
1. May I use figures (charts) and excerpts from the A Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) in my training materials?
Yes. However, anyone who reproduces portions of PMBOK® Guide that exceed U.S. “Fair Use” guidelines must obtain permission from PMI by going to the following link on the www.pmi.org web site: http://www.pmi.org/Pages/OnlineForms/OnlinePermissions.aspx. PMI reserves the right to charge fees for use of that intellectual property. This applies to R.E.P.s and non-R.E.P.s alike. R.E.P.s have, by virtue of their enrollment, a license to reproduce 15 figures and 5 excerpts from the PMBOK® Guide at no extra cost.
PMI Standards Alignment and R.E.P. Courses
1. Does a project management class need to be based on the PMBOK® Guide?
Courses teaching alternative approaches or methodologies regarding project management are acceptable provided that students are made aware that the approach differs in concept or terminology from PMI Standards.
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R.E.P. Applicant Appeals Process
1. What happens if a R.E.P. Program Application is rejected? Are there any restrictions for reapplying?
If an R.E.P. Program Applicant is denied approval, then they have 30 days to complete the “Appeals Process.” Applicants who are rejected at the end of the appeals process must wait one year from submittal of the original application to reapply to the R.E.P. Program.
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Presenting Licensed Course Material from a Current R.E.P.
1. I use the training materials from another R.E.P. How do I complete the application if I did not develop the course submitted for review?
R.E.P.s may use training materials or courses offered by other R.E.P.s under a proper license with that R.E.P. However, they should have processes in place to select these materials and courses and must meet all other R.E.P. application criteria. Please refer to the R.E.P. Program Application for details on the quality review for licensed courses.
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Maintenance of R.E.P. Enrollment after Approval
1. How do I maintain my organization’s enrollment in the R.E.P. program? What do we do if we have personnel changes or wish to update our courses?
Upon enrollment in the R.E.P. program, your organization is sent an electronic R.E.P. Program Manual that has instructions for updating your organization’s courses and changing point of contact information. It also includes R.E.P. logos and Logo Usage Guidelines, as well as information on how to access URLs and websites specifically designed to provide updated information to the R.E.P.s.
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2. After my organization enrolls in the R.E.P. program, how do we register new courses in the R.E.P. database? What is the course approval turn around time?
New courses may be registered electronically, via an online, R.E.P. Course Description Form, or submitted via fax, e-mail attachment and postal service. The turn-around time on the original course that is associated with the R.E.P. applicant organization is about two weeks after the applicant is approved into the R.E.P. program. After enrollment in the R.E.P. program, other courses that the R.E.P. submits throughout the year using the R.E.P. Administrative Updates Site take approximately two days to be accepted.
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