Contract Management Principles And Practices

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OBJECTIVES

  • Steps and stages of contract management from needs analysis to closure
  • Terms and terminology of contracting and procurement
  • Legal requirements of contracts and their implications
  • Ingredients for contracting success
  • Stakeholder mapping and expectations analysis
  • Converting project objectives to contract requirements
  • Applications and weaknesses of contract types
  • Risk transfer through contracting terms and conditions
  • Impact of subcontractors
  • Procurement planning from needs analysis through to creation of bid packages
  • Importance of the SOW
  • Procurement process including bid packages, source selection, and awarded contracts
  • Contracting paper trail and the time requirements for the steps involved

OUTLINE

Virtual Classroom Live Outline

  1. Introduction to Procurement Management
  • Contract schedule network diagram
  • Terminology - procurement and contracting
  • Contract definition - practical and legal
  • Purpose of contracts
  • Risk transfer through contracting
  • Definition of contracting success
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Stakeholder expectations
  • Communications chain
  1. Needs Analysis
  • Objectives to requirements documents
  • Requirements documents to SOW
  • Contract types
  • Contract management mistakes
  • Role of legal department
  1. Plan Procurements
  • Planning documents
  • Requirement documents
  • Procurement management plan
  • SOW
  • Bid packages
  • Tender documents
  • Source selection criteria
  1. Conduct Procurements
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Vendor participation
  • Advertising and bidder conferences
  • Proposal evaluation techniques
  • Paper trail and due diligence
  • Principled negotiations vs. positional negotiations
  • Objectives of negotiations processes
  1. Administer Procurements
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Procurement team
  • Vendor relationship management
  • Monitoring performance
  • Contract change controls
  • Contract amendment
  • Performance reviews
  • Payment systems
  • Claims administration
  1. Close Procurements
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Early termination
  • Lessons learned
  • Procurement audits
  • Negotiated settlements
  • Contracting problems and their solutions
  • Ingredients for contracting success

Hands-On Exercises

  • Contracting schedule network diagram: Estimating procurement durations and total elapsed time
  • Strategic analysis of procurement strategy using SWOT technique
  • Evaluating bid proposals: Source selection and ranking of bids
  • Development of SOW documents: Source selection criteria and weighting system, performance and quality standards, and negotiating priorities
  • Integration of contract type, terms, and conditions into project schedule and risk management plans
  • Role playing: Negotiations between buyer and vendor over contract terms
  • Contract closure and collection of lessons learned

Certificates

A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.

Schedule

  08:30 – 10:15 First Session

 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Second Session

 12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00 Third Session

 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

 Fees

 The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: