Professional Development

 'Michael - thank you again for speaking at our Fall Conference. The event got rave reviews'.

                                                                                                 Janice Schlitters, Co-Chair
                                                                                                 Michigan Public Procurement Officers Association
                                                                                                 email: janice.schlitters@metroparks.com

'I want to thank you again for putting on a great workshop. It was definitely our best yet - our best yet in the history of NAPM-Utah!'                                                                                       

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Recent & Scheduled Appearances

May 6, Denver, State Purchasing Dept.
A one-day workshop on Bullet-Proofing Your RFPs for State Agencies

May 18, Albany, Office of General Services, State of New York
Keynote address to the State Purchasing Forum on "Searching for Savings"
Expect 1500 attendees. For a copy of this speech, go to:

http://www.rfpmentor.com/cms_pdfs/KeynoteMay182010NY.doc

May 19, New York City, Purchasing Dept.
A two-day workshop on best RFP Practices

June 15, University of Alberta, Edmonton
A one-day workshop on RFP best practices

Sept. 15-16, ISM, Salt Lake City, Utah
ISM Material Management Group is sponsoring a workshop on Spend Management 
and Select Procurement Topics 

Sept. 20, Canadian Government Executive Magazine, Ottawa
A one-day workshop on Selling to Government 

Sept. 21, Canadian Government Executive Magazine, Ottawa
A one-day workshop on Bullet-Proofing Your RFPs

Nov. 9, Baton Rouge, Louisiana NIGP Conference
A one-day workshop on Bullet-Proofing Your RFPs for State agencies 

Dec. 1-2 Alberta Institute of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada, Calgary & Edmonton 
Two-day workshop on Bullet-Proofing Your RFPs

Dear Colleague

For the last twenty years, I have developed and presented a variety of workshops dealing with public procurement issues. These workshops have been sponsored by organizations such as NIGP (in the U.S.) and PMAC (in Canada) and the Caribbean Procurement Institute.  I have been told that my speaking workshops are ‘intensive and interesting’ and that my speaking style is ‘both entertaining and, at times, humorous’.

For a complete catalog and detailed description of each workshop or presentation, go to:
http://www.rfpmentor.com/cms_pdfs/PresentationsCatalogNov2010.doc

Here are some of the topics I currently present:

Full Day Workshops

1. Bullet-Proofing Your RFPs: A Survival Guide for Practitioners
2. The End Game is Ethical Public Procurement: Making Ethical Issues Part of Your Procurement Process and Your Culture
3. RFPs and the Evaluation Process: Getting it Right!!
4. Selling to Government/Creating Winning Proposals
   

Half Day Workshops

5. Fair and Flexible RFPs – They do exist!
   

Two Hour Presentations

6. Ethical Public Procurement (or How to Avoid the 6 p.m. News)
7. Current Trends in Procurement and the RFP Process: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
8. A Six-Pack of Avoidable, Seemingly Difficult, Major RFP Problems and Their Simple Solutions
9. Six Major RFP Documents to Intimidate Their Lawyers
   

If you are considering having me participate in your next conference or professional development day, give me a call. Let’s discuss it.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best wishes,

Michael Asner
www.rfpmentor.com
michael@rfpmentor.com
604.530-7881