Procurement Training

Well its summer (still), and naturally everyone's minds turn to planning procurement training for the rest of the year.

No?

Just me then.

But a reminder that as well as working through a list of partner organisations, we also offer bespoke and off the shelf training programmes directly.  These can be either face to face or online.  

We offer courses covering a wide range of commercial skills, especially those related to procurement and supply chain management.  The courses are suitable for both public and private sectors, and often for both buyers and sellers.

Course topics can include;

- The Procurement Act 2023 (which is topical)

- Procurement & Supply Chain Management

- Supplier Management

- Contract Management (my lawyer friends point out I am not a lawyer, and I point out that is why I run this course - the focus is on getting what we want, not detailed legal issues)

- Commercial Negotiation

- Tender evaluation processes

- Commercial awareness

AND a range of other things in related areas.

If you are interested, drop me a note or give me a call.

What Engineers need to know about Contracts - live and in person in Rugby 8-9 July 2025

 After a short break due to the Covid19 pandemic (5 years?) we are returning to running this course face to fact in Rugby for a full 2 days.

Will be a great opportunity to network and of course to interrogate me about what I meant.

Hope to see you there.

Full details here

Just to confirm:  this is going ahead and we are getting pretty full for numbers - so if you are interested, best to book now.

Understanding and Implementing the Procurement Act 2023 - 4th June 2025

 

I am delighted to be starting a new series of courses with GovPD, starting 4th June 2025 with Understanding and Implementing the Procurement Act 2023.

The course is online and (as usual with me) will have lots of opportunity for delegates to interact and ask questions.  

This first running is just about sold out but we are going to be running it more times in 2025/6, with the next date on 5th August 2025.

Full details of the course are here.  Hope to see you there.

Delivering Against the new NPPS - 27TH March 2025

 Well the new National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS) is here.

And 3/5ths of it seem pretty simple to reconcile with procurement.  The other 2/5?

Well that is why you need to come along to PASS Procurement's course on Delivering Against the new NPPS = 27th March 2025 online.  Full details here.

hope to see you there.

What Engineers need to know about Contracts - IChemE online 20/21/22 October 2025 pm to be rescheduled

(We have rescheduled the online event from April 2025)

The ever popular What Engineers Need to know about Contracts course is being run twice by IChemE this year - once online in October 2025, and once face to face in July 2025.

The face to face event is of course limited in numbers, and is getting pretty full already so if you want a couple of days in Rugby better get booking.

The online course is pretty much the same content but 3 half days rather than 2 full days, and of course it is much easier to accommodate any number of delegates.

Full details of the courses are available here.

Hope to see you on one or the other (honestly no need to book both...)

(BTW this is not the highly regarded course that goes into details of the IChemE suite of model contracts, though we do mention them).

Online Open course - CIPS Procurement Fundamentals 13th Jan 2025

Happy New Year.  

The end of year break has gone past quickly and we are now quickly into the thick of courses and events.  Still looking forward to the Procurement Act 2023 going live on 24th February 2025.

I shall be running Procurement Fundamentals online on 13th January 2025 for CIPS.  A one day course, giving you (guess what?) the fundamentals of procurement (for both public and private sectors, services and manufacturing).

Hope you will join us.

full details here.

CIPS Strategic Transformation - online - 4/5th October 2022

 I shall be running the CIPS online open training course on Strategic Transformation on 4th and 5th October 2022.  Full details are here.

We are in, to say the least, "interesting times".  And appropriately as well as a lot of tactical activity businesses are trying to re-evaluate their strategic choices.  The disruption of the past few years has lead most people to realise that business as usual refers to a past state of affairs that we are unlikely to revert to.

As an example, Working From Home (WFH) was a rarity and has now become the "new normal".  Of course, historically most people worked from home - factories and offices were new inventions a couple of hundred years ago.  But things changed, and change again, and while sticking with the previous strategy might be the right approach we should review it and check.

Personally, the move to online training has made me re-think how I work.

Hope to see you there, and hear your thoughts as well as discuss how to set and revise appropriate strategies for the future.

IChemE: What Engineers need to know about Contracts

The perennially popular course on what Engineers need to know about contracts (- but don't get taught on their Chem Eng courses, is my suggestion for a subtitle) is being run online on 28th and 30th November 2022.  

Full details are here.

This is two half days on separate days, and assumes no previous knowledge or understanding of contracts or the law.  In fact that is rather the point.  Starts 10am UK time, finishes at 1pm UK time each day.

The course is based on the contract law of England and Wales, but discusses other legal systems and so is (hopefully) more generally applicable around the world.

Hope to see you there.  Or at your place.  We have run this both online and the  traditional in person two full day course for clients recently, and the team at IChemE are always happy to arrange to do so for your organisation.  

Public Procurement in the UK - online 2021

 With a colleague we are looking at running a public procurement awareness course in March 2022, just ahead of the implementation of new public procurement rules (or so we are told).

Our current plans would be to look at doing one day as an Introduction, and a second day focusing on the new regulations.

A possible third day would be a course I have longed to do for years, which is to look at negotiation from both the sales and procurement points of view- at the same time.

If you are interested, it would be great if you would let me know  - no commitment.  What we want to know is whether it is of interest, and what topics people want covering.

Hope to see you then.

online training updates

Well, to be honest update is a little bit optimistic.  What I can tell you is that I shall be running two new online courses - one for CIPS, and one for IChemE - if all goes well in the development.  What I cannot tell you yet is the titles and timings, though we are hoping to run the IChemE course in early June.

More details as things develop - stay in, and stay safe.

Preparing Perfect Tenders, London 15th March 2017

Off to London to deliver Preparing Perfect Tenders for BIP Solutions.  Full details here.