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.
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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