Aligning your skills with the demands of your organisation
- Apply the Commonwealth Resource Management Framework to your procurement and contract management
- Determine required business needs and explore alternative options for achieving them
- Establish criteria for evaluating the ability of suppliers to meet the required business needs
- Develop a business case for undertaking your procurement activity, including the identification and assessment of relevant procurement risks
Enhancing value-for-money procurements
- Comply with relevant Commonwealth Procurement Rules and AusTender requirements, including the determination of your expectations about value-for-money
- Document the evaluation of responses to your procurement activities
- Determine a negotiation strategy that will enhance the achievement of value for money
Managing contracts that deliver on time and on budget
- Confirm the deliverables and timeframes to be set out in contractual arrangements
- Assess and overcome contract management risks
- Developing your compliance with the efficient, effective, economical and ethical use and management of public resources
Managing a contract once it has been completed
- Report on management activities to achieve successful contract management
- Contribute to the successful handover of contract management responsibilities
- Practical relationship management tools