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Understanding Procurement Law and Procedures

Apply and Comply with the Latest Regulations

Chaired by
Gillian King

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Overview

With the Procurement Act receiving royal assent and coming into force in October 2024, having a firmer grasp on procurement law and mandatory procedures has never been more important for public sector organisations.

Attend our Understanding Procurement Law and Procedures course to gain a firmer overview of the latest changes to procurement law and regulation and learn how to adapt to a more streamlined and less costly procurement process.

Receive guidance on the relevant procurement directives from procurement expert, Gillian King, and learn more about the potential substantial procurement changes, along with processes that affect your procurement procedures.


Procurement Professional & Trainer

Gillian King is a highly experienced procurement professional and trainer, with over 20 years’ experience in global procurement and supply chain management, working for government and multinational corporations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Her sector experience is as a procurement professional, initially with the Civil Service in the UK Home Office and later as a global category leader for Zurich Financial Services, where her group annual spend was in excess of $400 M.

More recently she has provided consultancy and training to international government and ‘Blue Chip’ organisations in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, specialising in ...


Gillian King

Learning Outcomes

  • Deep-dive into the Procurement Act 2023

  • Learn how to source and engage with SMEs

  • Adapt to the streamlined, less costly procurement process

  • Understand how to implement procurement procedures and processes

  • Develop a better understanding of regulatory updates



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Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 11:00 Procurement Law: Understanding the Latest Developments  

  • Develop a better understanding of the Procurement Act 2023

  • Gain the latest overview of the changes and understand key new language to be use.

  • Ensure compliance with the key legislation

  • Learn from best and worse practice at procurement law

  • Understand the processes required to establish good practice and operate within legal parameters

  • Demonstrate knowledge of case law and the effect its had on procurement practice

11:00 - 11:15 Morning Break

11:15 - 12:00 Understanding Procurement Regulations

  • Adapt to the streamlined, less costly procurement process

  • Learn how to source and engage with SMEs

  • Gain an update on Procurement regulations

12:00 - 13:00 Applying The Current Procurement Contract Regulations

  • ·       Ascertain what will remain and change from The Public Contracts Regulation 2015

    ·       Align procurement procedures with new regulation

    ·       Learn from best practice at applying Procurement Regulation

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Understanding and Implementing Procurement Procedures and Processes

Understand the transition from OJEU to FTS

Learn about the following tender processes:

  • Tender specification

  • Tender selection

  • Tender award

Learn about the following public procurement procedures, including Procurement Act 2023 procedures:

  • Open procedure

  • Restricted procedure

  • Competitive dialogue procedure

  • Competitive procedure with negotiation

  • Innovation partnership procedure

  • Understand the stringent thresholds when it comes to competitive or negotiated procurements

  • Learn about the different monetary thresholds

  • Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each procedure

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation & Close

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