Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Overview of contracting and tendering
- Definition of a contract
- Stages in contracting
- Preparation and tendering
- Award and administration
- Defining tendering
- Purpose of tendering
- Alternatives of tendering
Objectives of tendering
- Tendering process
- Contracting methods
- Competitive bidding
- Competitive proposals
- Reverse auction
Tendering preparation
- Identifying requirements
- Setting scope of work
- Planning the evaluation process
- Identifying suppliers
- Developing tender documents
- Invitation to tender
- Terms and conditions
- Tender briefing
- Receiving and opening bids
Optimizing the Tender Documents
- Contents of the Tender Package
- Ensuring a Robust Specification and Scope of Work
- Defining the Response, You Require from Bidders
- Essential Clauses in the Draft Terms and Conditions
- Bid Security, Performance Security in Public Tenders
- Anticipating and Reducing the Risk of Scope Change
Managing the Technical and Commercial Evaluation
- The Purpose of Bid Evaluation
- Lowest Price or Best Value for Money
- Stages of the Evaluation
- Clarifying Bids to Assist the Evaluation
- Choosing Evaluation and Award Criteria
- Bid Evaluation Approaches (One-envelop, Two-envelop, Online Bidding)
Managing the Contract Award and Initialization Stage
- Communicating the Results – Internally and Externally
- Working with Tender Bonds and Performance Guarantees
- Dealing with Disputed Contract Awards
- Operating under Pre-contract Letters of Intent
- Managing Pre-contract Scope Changes
- Initiating Contract
