Even if you have experienced procurement and commercial staff working with your team, steering a project through to contract award can be a daunting experience. A training course with Stablebridge will ensure that everybody knows what needs to be done and how to tackle their tasks.
Restricted procedure is used in cases where you can’t just award a contract to the supplier with the lowest price. ‘Lowest price’ only works well if all bidders are supplying identical products or services. Restricted Procedure allows you to choose the best supplier in terms of the best price, combined with most value. Following the procedure can be a complex matter and demands that the team focuses on following European and national legislation, government directives and guidelines, local policies and best practice – to avoid legal challenges from belligerent bidders. With all those things to worry about, it is easy to forget that the main aim is to choose the team most likely to meet the authority’s needs.
Our courses are practical in nature and as participative as time allows. This course will equip your team to take a project from initial concept, through an OJEU procurement process, to contract signature and beyond.
Subjects covered can include:
- Rules, regulations, policies, guidelines. The constituent parts of Best Practice.
- Process – how starting at the beginning and ending at the end can get you into trouble.
- What does Value for Money really mean?
- Evaluation criteria – how to overcome The Curse of Knowledge
- Cost? Price? Value? Risk? Juggling the outputs…
- Stakeholders – building agreement by resolving conflict
- Bidders – being open with them without compromising competition
- Conducting the evaluation and declaring a winner
- How to minimise the risk of a legal challenge
- Your checklist for action
There is substantial overlap between this and other courses, so savings can be made by looking at your overall training needs before committing to a single course.
If you have only two or three people to be trained, it may be possible to book them onto an ‘open’ course. Open courses will run periodically, whenever there is sufficient demand to make them viable.