Procurement non accredited trainings Courses £149.99
We offer non accredited courses to help you start your career in Procurement,
We will provide you with practical professional training to help you understand procurement and how to undertake any procurement exercise from end to end.
This course is our most popular course for people with no previous experience in procurement and will help you to get a procurement job. We advise you to start with this course first before joining our CIPS accredited program from Level 4. Once you have completed this course 5 days course you will be able to apply for procurement job and perform well with the tools we will give.
This is based on our 20 years’ experience in procurement. The course is main to be practical sourcing the followings:
- Procurement Law, Procurement Act and Procurement regulation- with practical examples
- Procurement routes
- Pretender stage: Starting a procurement exercise from needs analysis, stakeholders’ identification and engagement, soft market testing to designing your procurement exercise and choosing the right procurement route and suggestion weighing.
- Setting timetable, following internal processes and governance, and any organisation contract standing order
- Drafting the tender pack, using various E-tendering systems- demonstration and training will be provided for at least 2 systems.
- Manging live tenders
- Post tenders and notices and contract award
- Contract management stage
Basic Contract Law £199
Course Description ( 1 day)
Learners will explore key aspects of contract law to understand what constitutes a contract.
Target Audience
This Foundation course is aimed at procurement officers who are involved in supplier contracts and need basic understanding of contract law.
Learning Outcomes
On completion Learners will be able to:
- Understand legal issues relating to formation of a contract, its basic structure and constituent elements.
- Understand the background to business-business contract law.
- Understand the background to consumer contract law.
- Determine the relevant legislation appropriate to specific purchases (online, telephone, in-store, third parties).
- Explain the rights and remedies applicable to business-business and business-consumer contracts.
Advanced Negotiation (2 days) £399
Course Description
On completion of this course Learners will be able to identify approaches to successfully achieve commercial negotiated agreements with other parties.
Course Duration This is a 2 day course.
Target Audience
This highly practical course is aimed at personnel who are involved in complex Negotiation
Learning Outcomes
On completion learners will be able to:
- Examine negotiation and the associated strategies, tools and techniques
- Confirm understanding of how commercial negotiations should be undertaken
- Identify behavioural factors which can influence others
- Understand how to manage conflict
- Analyse the impact that bias and culture can have on negotiations
- Conduct multiple negotiations
Effective Contract Management 1 day course £199
Course Description
The aim of this course is to provide those who are either new to contract management, or who find themselves currently in a contract management role, with the essential skills and tools to manage their contracts more efficiently and effectively.
Target Audience
This introduction course is for individuals needing to manage contracts more proficiently.
Learning Outcomes
On completion Learners will be able to:
- Understand the best practice methodologies and tools to manage contracts throughout the lifecycle.
- Understand contract implementation and mobilisation activities.
- Examine performance management methods.
- Review financial responsibilities within contract management.
- Identify effective change control.
- Understand how to manage escalations and disputes.
- Evaluate the importance of supplier and client relationship management.
- Review risk prevention, mitigation, and management.
- Understand exit management and termination activities.
- Identify contract close-out and lessons learned activities.
Sustainable Procurement £199
Course Duration
This is a half day course.
Course Description
This awareness course runs for 1/2 day and introduces the learner to the Social Value Act and its implementation in procurement across the public sector.
Target Audience
This half day course is aimed at all delivery team members who are involved in sustainable procurement.
Learning Outcomes
On completion Learners will be able to:
- Understand the concept of sustainable procurement.
- Explore how sustainable procurement can align with organisational objectives.
- Explore how Corporate Social Responsibility influences sustainable procurement.
- Understand what sustainable procurement means within the supply chain.
Tender Evaluation and Award for Evaluators
Course Description 4 hours £99
Learners explore what is involved in good tender evaluation and award, and discuss compliance with the Procurement Act 2023. They work through the tender evaluation process and understand the components of the evaluation model.
Target Audience
- This course is aimed at non-procurement officers involved in the tender evaluation and award procedure, ensuring contracts are effectively placed to deliver value for money.
Learning Outcomes
On completion Learners will be able to:
- Understand what tender evaluation is
- Identify what compliance with the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 means
- Understand effective requirements capture
- Explain the tender evaluation process
- Discuss unconscious bias
- Describe the award process
