PUBLIC SECTOR PROCUREMENT DEMYSTIFIED
(Public Purchasing 101)
An Explanation of the Seemingly Unusual Practices
of Procurement People in the Public Sector
Do you need a good overview of public procurement for new staff?
Do you need a simple explanation of the procurement function that program people, including I.T., Accounting and Operations, can easily understand?
Do you need a handy user reference for vendors new to your agency and public procurement?
As a busy procurement manager, you face numerous challenges due to the lack of education of key stakeholders. Public Sector Procurement Demystified is an inexpensive solution. Developed by Jim O’Neil, one of the country’s leading procurement people. For only $195, you get a 90-minute presentation (and Resource Guide) which deals with the essential elements of public procurement:
• The important of ethical behavior and some example of transgressions
• How the purchasing function works
• The fundamental significance of ‘fair and open’ competition
• How procurement activities are influenced by the laws and the courts
• The boundaries imposed by technical, social, economic and political constraints
• Different ways of acquiring goods and service
• The importance of specifications and how they are developed
• An explanation of major legal issues include the law of agency
• Common contracting issues
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What You'll Learn
This training CD describes the critical role of purchasing within a public agency and how purchasing people do their jobs. This CD will help program people who have to deal with a purchasing department and its long list of policies and procedures. It will also help people new to public purchasing to understand its important role as custodians of public policy.
This is an introductory level workshop - a conversation with Jim O’Neill about how purchasing works and some of the reasons for their seemingly strange behavior. It answers the question: What do those people do and why?
The objective is to explain:
(i) that Purchasing's activities are defined by law, regulations, policies, culture and best practices;
(ii) the key elements defining Purchasing's role including: enabling legislation; ethics; the purchasing cycle and different ways of acquiring goods and services.
About Jim O’Neill
• Former president of NIGP
• Popular speaker about public procurement issues
• Read Jim's biography here
Jim has been recognized as one of the country’s leading procurement people. He has been president of NIGP and has acted as the country’s Senior Delegate to the International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management.
Jim often speaks to new procurement people and non-procurement people about this topic. In fact, this CD is based on conversations and presentations he has given explaining public procurement – how it works and why procurement people behave as they do. Jim answers the common question:
“What do those people do?” In fact, this presentation deals with the essential elements of public procurement:
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• 90-minute PowerPoint presentation narrated by Jim O’Neill
• 60-page Resource Guide
• License
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