The Regulated Procurement Academy is designed to improve your understanding of the Procurement Principles associated with the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and the Utilities Contract Regulations 2016 to how they translate into legislation and applying them in practice. The course also touches on the implications of the upcoming Procurement Act 2023 and how to prepare during the transition period.
Who should attend?
The training is designed to provide procurement practitioners with a level of knowledge that ensures full understanding of the complexities of regulated procurement legislation. This training is appropriate for procurement practitioners who are at the beginning of their career or those more experienced who would like to refresh their knowledge.
Agenda
The Regulated Procurement Academy modules incorporate 6 full days, with open courses spread over a number of weeks. Bespoke in-house courses timetabled to suit an organisations own requirements are also available upon enquiry. Each Academy will be delivered by one of our experienced trainers, all with a wealth of knowledge in regulated procurement legislation and practitioner knowledge.
Our team consists of CIPS qualified practitioners and Master degree graduates in Procurement and Procurement Law.
Our courses are delivered as interactive class room based sessions with case studies, scenarios and examples of relevant case law. They are all supported by the Achilles procurement toolkit THEMiS, a web-based regulated procurement encyclopaedia, providing guidance, case law, consolidated legislation and the function to ask specific regulated related procurement questions which will be accessible for the duration of the academy.
Over the course we will cover:
- Module 1 – Understanding the regulated procurement concept
- Module 2 – Understanding our markets and creating notices in Find a Tender
- Module 3 – Selection and award
- Module 4 – Framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems
- Module 5 – Sustainability and remedies
- Module 6 – The business game