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You can have the right professional qualification but

does that mean you know the right things?

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Strategic needs assessment

Decide priorities and outcomes

Plan and design services

Optional appraisalSourcing

Delivery

Monitor and review

The commissioning

cycle

Defining procurement and all that stuff

Determine the need

Supplier selection

Contracting

Ordering

Expediting

Follow-up/evaluation

The purchasing

cycle

procurement

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To define the local government procurement ‘professional’ follow the money

Dir Social Services(ADSS)

Asset mgrs(RICS)

Waste managers(IWM)

Highways eng.(CHIT)

Architects(RIBA)

ICT(SOCITM)

Marketing(CIM)

Procurement(CIPS)

GPs

Spend

University provision

of procurement

education

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How are sector differences in requirements handled in procurement education at university level in UK?

Adv Cert in Procurement Adv Dip in Procurement BSc (Hons) MSc MPA MBA specialist & generic PhD

Private sector content which public sector ‘like it or lump it’

Public sector content which private sector ‘like it or lump it’

Small amount of specialised postgrad e.g.

• Construction• Commissioning

‘Big spenders’ without provision

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Priorities for some… but not for all Strategic procurement management in a political environment

Roles & remits of politicians and officers Executive Overview & scrutiny

Strategic commissioning Collaboration:

Consortia Shared services Clusters

Policy through procurement: Lowering barriers to SMEs Skills training & apprenticeship opportunities & tackling youth unemployment Sustainable procurement

SME & third sector commitments on: The Compact Small Business Friendly Concordat 8 Principles of Good Commissioning

Public procurement regulation Procurement programme & project management and Gateway Reviews Local economic development

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The answer is in the word ‘merit’

Justice to students

& sponsors

Breadth & depth of the

body of knowledge

Merit common core content,targeted at

range of levels & ‘sector

specific’ essential content but not always

separate delivery

Given time constraint

+ + =

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The answer is in the word ‘merit’

Justice to students

& sponsors

Breadth & depth of the

body of knowledge

Merit common core content,targeted at

range of levels & ‘sector

specific’ essential content but not always

separate delivery

Given time constraint

+ + =