Professional Certification Programme in Public Procurement Management for the Government of Guyana – Level 3: Strategic and Advance Contracting, Innovation and Sustainability

Level 3 of this Professional Certification Programme in Public Procurement Management provided a practical approach and advanced expertise dealing with strategic and advance contracting, innovation and sustainability. The programme aimed to enable participants to strategically approach public procurement and project procurement management. OBJECTIVES • Gain advanced knowledge of the process of proactive planning to foster resilience and development • Identify sustainability, innovation, health & safety considerations and explore multiple opportunities to incorporate Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) in each stage of the procurement cycle • Get an overview on how to promote and achieve wider compliance with environmental and social standards in procurement operations in various stages of procurement • Identify multiple benefits of e-procurement in streamlining the procurement process, increasing value for money, competition, transparency and reducing costs • Understand the intimate link between strategic and advanced contract administration and successful project management • Discuss the critical aspects of contract management strategy • Explore practical application of strategic procurement planning and contract management in goods, services and works contracts • Compare types of claims and ways to anticipate and prevent them as well as how to deal with them • Demonstrate knowledge and ability to conduct proper contract performance monitoring and evaluation CONTENT • Processes for setting up an proactive planning to foster resilience, innovation and sustainable development • Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) specificities and dimensions • Application of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) approach to SPP, including SPP policy, Action Plan, implementation, monitoring • Integration of sustainability into procurement operations throughout the entire procurement cycle • Compliance with environmental and social standards in procurement operations in various stages of procurement • Procurement to foster innovation, linking e-procurement operations and system management • Capacity on the use of e-procurement methods, including e-purchasing, e-tendering, e-portals, e-framework agreements, centralized systems and innovative evaluation methods • Linking strategic and advanced contract management and successful project management, focusing on Contract Management Plan benefits • Advanced contract management techniques for goods procurement, with attention to quality management, time management and disclaimers • Advanced contract management techniques for consultancy procurement , with attention to deliverables accountability, management of experts, payments • Advanced procurement planning and contract management in works contracts, with attention to FIDIC forms of contract, role of engineer, managing changes and variations, delay management, claims and dispute resolution techniques. • Contract performance monitoring and evaluation and preparation of an effective Plan for Monitoring & Evaluation Modules: 1. Module 3.1: Procurement as a tool for resilience, emergency and development 2. Module 3.2: Integrating sustainability into procurement operations 3. Module 3.3: Innovation: e-procurement operations and system management 4. Module 3.4: Strategic and advance contracting 5. Module 3.5: Management strategy 6. Module 3.6: Performance measurement ACHIEVEMENT This certificate of achievement has been delivered to the participants that have produced the required deliverables by completing the self-guided modules, the knowledge tests, the case studies and the assignments. The overall duration of the course has been 6 weeks, requiring 10 hours per week to complete the following learning activities: NUMBER OF HOURS: 60