Procurement and Contract Management Practices

The workshop is intended for anyone involved in procurement: i.e. purchasing managers and agents, those involved in the supply chain, project managers, team leaders, vendor or product evaluation/selection team members and program managers who want to put the concepts and techniques of effective procurement into practice.

• Identify stakeholder expectations, and convert business or project needs into contract requirements
• Create supplier selection criteria and follow a structured approach to short-listing and selecting suppliers
• Conduct an effective bidders’ conference
• Strengthen your negotiating techniques to achieve “win-win” outcomes
• Monitor and control supplier performance, to ensure requirement standards are met
• Amend contracts and manage changes that occur during the procurement process
• Maintain productive working relationships with suppliers
• Reduce the potential for disputes and legal action

• Procurement management framework: procurement life cycle, key roles, procurement organizations, contract definitions and purposes, contract types, risk transfer, common constraints and legal issues
• Planning procurements: building your evaluation team, needs analysis, stakeholder expectations and requirements mapping, developing the procurement management plan and procurement Statement of Works, identifying suppliers, drafting legal tendering documents, defining selection criteria and weights, creating the Supplier Evaluation Model
• Conducting procurements: the bidders’ conference, evaluation techniques, short-listing and selecting suppliers, ensuring due diligence and an equitable process, negotiating
• Administering procurements: managing supplier performance and relationships, amending contracts and managing change, the dispute process
• Closing procurements: auditing, settling contracts, early termination

Special features

The action-learning format features group discussion and simulated exercises in “real-world” project environments. Working in teams, you will apply the tools and techniques you are learning, and experience the process of collaborative planning firsthand.

As part of the workshop, you will receive 13 PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs).

Note:  participants in this program may qualify for up to $10,000 in funding through the Canada BC Job Grant program. Find out if you qualify.