Training in procurement for tender evaluators:
This exciting Clever Buying course covers best practice procurement methods for preparing Procurement Strategies and Plans; developing Requests for Tender and conducting all aspects of Tender Evaluation in compliance with Government Procurement Rules. We introduce leading-edge tools that cut the time and costs of tender evaluations – while improving the quality of decision making.
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Practical Procurement Training
This course covers everything that your procurement teams need to know about procurement planning and running tender processes. It’s engaging, practical and fun – and participants invariably report it’s been an eye-opener that transforms and provides great confidence in their procurement activities.
The two-day course provides the core knowledge and some of the assessment requirements for the NZ Certificate in Infrastructure Procurement Procedures – the only NZQA-accredited Procurement Qualification that includes Government Rules of Procurement and practical procurement methods.
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Clever Buying™ covers international best practice procurement theory as well as leading-edge tools and methods used for tender preparation and evaluation. The tools and techniques can be applied in any industry that uses tendering as a key form of procurement.
Who should attend Clever Buying™?
- Procurement specialists and practitioners
- Tender evaluators
- Engineers responsible for contracts
- Procurement senior and middle managers
- Procurement and tendering consultants
- Commercial and business managers
- Purchasing managers
- CEOs, general managers and managing directors
Clever Buying™ Day One: PROCUREMENT PLANNING and RFT PREPARATION
1. PROCUREMENT ESSENTIALS
- Strategic context of procurement
- Government rules and principles
- The procurement life cycle
2. PROCUREMENT PLANNING
- Strategic procurement planning – a blueprint
- Project analysis
- Market analysis
- Procurement risk and opportunity analysis
3. SUPPLIER SELECTION METHODS
- Context of supplier selection
- Delivery models
- Open/ closed contests
- Supplier selection Methods:
- Direct Appointment
- Lowest Price Conforming
- Weighted Attributes
- Price Quality Method
- Purchaser Nominated (Target) Price
- Quality-Based Selection (Brook’s Law)
4. DEVELOPING RFx DOCUMENTS
- RFT design – good + bad examples
- RFT development:
- Shortlisting strategies
- Effective Pre-conditions
- Using risk/ opportunity analysis for attribute selection
- Targeted, effective RFT questions
- Effective response forms
- Setting weightings
Clever Buying™ Day Two: TENDER EVALUATION
5. SCORING METHODS
- Lowest Price Conforming
- Anchored scale scoring for Non-Price Attributes
- Weighting Attributes
- Price/ Quality Method
6. EVALUATION PROCESSES
- Selecting and briefing the evaluation team
- Effective tender process administration
- Tags and clarifications
- Alternative tenders
- Tender communications
- Tender evaluation reports
- Tender de-briefs
7. LEGAL AND ETHICAL EVALUATION ISSUES
- Government Procurement Principles, Charter, Rules and Guides
- Construction Procurement Guidelines
- Legal requirements and codes of ethics
- Tendering case law
- Cartel conduct
- Evaluation probity scenario examples
8. PRACTISING TENDER EVALUATION – TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS
- Tender evaluation practice: Two interactive examples completed in group work
Click here to download an outline of the ‘Clever Buying’ course content.
