This programme offers the opportunity to build a strategic approach to the procurement of goods and services across your organisation, ensuring a more structured system is effectively developed, adopted or enhanced. Strategic procurement supports stronger supplier and contractor management capabilities for the whole organisation by limiting the negative effects of unilateral tendering and piecemeal management of contracts with the danger of a lack of due diligence and potential malfeasance. It brings clear cost benefits through the ability to rigorously monitor and enforce service levels, reducing the incidence of contractual dispute and, critically for public services, failed targets.
An emphasis on both central government and private sector perspectives in the UK, growing initiatives in sustainable procurement internationally and a review of contemporary World Bank procurement policies is complemented by visiting practitioners facilitating case study assessments and identifying appropriate measures required to introduce or enhance the strategic procurement capability of participants’ own organisations.
The programme considers the most challenging aspects of the procurement cycle, including the critical ‘hotspots’ of tender evaluation and contract management.
The programme lends itself to delegates who have already had some experience in Procurement or have attended the Effective Tendering, Award of Contract and Managing your Provider programme.