- Home \
- Training \
- Getting Started - Introduction to Public Procurement
Getting Started - Introduction to Public Procurement
Event summary
Recent geo-political, economic and wider government transformation agenda has emphasised the important role of public procurement in ensuring the effective governance, operation and financial resilience of public bodies.
This event has been specially developed to support practitioners who are starting their public procurement careers or those who need to refresh their knowledge about the role and function of procurement.
Date
23 July 2024
Starts: 09:30
Ends: 15:45
Location
Webinar
Standard price
£195.00 excl VAT
Network Member Price
£99.00 excl VAT
Book now
About this event
Who should attend
The event is aimed at new staff taking up a role in the public procurement team, as well as experienced staff who have no formal procurement qualifications or who would like to refresh their knowledge and skills. Also, other staff, including Councillors and Directors who have strategic responsibility for making procurement decisions, tendering or contract management, will also benefit from the course. This event can also be delivered just for you.
How you will benefit
The event will offer you an opportunity to:
- Importance of procurement compliance to help deliver your corporate plan and procurement strategy.
- Develop practical understanding of key provisions of public procurement.
- Understand operation of procurement procedures to support tendering for supplies/services/works contracts.
- Introduction to framework agreements, light touch regime and other key concepts.
- Get an update on recent case law and future directions of public procurement in the UK.
- Take part in practical exercises/online polls to allow knowledge to be applied to real life scenarios.
CPD hours
Five and a half hours.
Topics
- Accounting
- / Audit
- / Commissioning
- / Local government
- / Risk management
- / Value for money
Speaker - Mohamed Hans, Procurement Advisor, CIPFA Procurement and Commissioning Network (CPCN)
Mohamed joined CIPFA in 2004, after working as a senior commercial solicitor for a number of West Yorkshire local authorities. He is an expert on the European Public Procurement Rules, and has written extensively on this topic. He has also developed widely-used practitioner toolkits. He is also invited to speak at conferences (UK and abroad) and is often the first point of contact for practitioners understanding complex procurement issues. He manages the CIPFA Procurement and Commissioning Network, which has nearly 100 member authorities.
Email: mohamed.hans@cipfa.org
Tel: 07717 345188.
You might also be interested in