

Course Description
Tender procedures and evaluation are regular events in the life of an organisation. Procurement of goods and services require a clear approach to tendering and their evaluation. This course is designed to provide officers involved in tender preparation and evaluation tools and techniques to perform in a more standard approach and ensure that the process is followed properly. The course will cover the following:
- • Objectives of procurement
- • Procurement planning
- • Bidding process
- • Bidding documents
- • Integrity in Procurement
- • Bidding document- Evaluation criteria
- • Bid Evaluation Principle
- • Bid Evaluation Methodology
- • Bid Evaluation Report
- • Debriefing Unsuccessful Bidders
- • Contract management
Course Objectives
The objectives of the course are to enable participants to:
- • Understand the stages in contracting for goods and services.
- • Articulate with the steps and procedures relevant to tender preparation.
- • Understand the tender evaluation approaches and reporting.
- • Understand the reasons and modes of debriefing unsuccessful bidders.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- • Recognize the contracting stages from setting the scope of work to awarding the contract.
- • Evaluate, in-depth, the process of preparing tenders and selecting potential suppliers.
- • Identify the issues involved in assessing tenders for quality as well as value for money including e-Auction.
- • Apply several approaches to bid evaluation using criteria, weights and scoring measures