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Project Procurement & Contract Management
Course Code: PDP 5137

This course is designed to provide project managers and project team members with both procurement and contract management information that will help create and maintain a positive environment for project success. This course explores critical issues from the project manager’s perspective, highlighting your role and responsibilities to provide greater influence over how work is initiated, planned, executed, controlled, and closed.

Who Should Attend
Project managers and project team members that perform work in contractual environments, or those who desire to know about the project management of procurement actions and contractual relationships.

What You Will Learn
• How to identify contract components and understand the procurement and contract process from start to finish
• Processes to select the right contract type for your project
• How to write and maintain a good Statement of Work and clarification of project objectives, requirements, plans, and specifications
• Definitions and aides to decipher contract terms and legal conditions
• Processes that provide how to choose the offer that will result in the best value
• How to negotiate favorable terms and make revisions to the contract
• How to administer contracts appropriately and know when and how to terminate before or upon completion

How You Will Benefit
• Creating Statements of Work that are results oriented
• Methods of contracting and strengths and weakness of each major type of contract
• How to negotiate with subcontractors and vendors to create the win-win scenario
• How best to protect and preserve the client’s and your company’s position through value contracting
• Best practice in contract and procurement closeout that allow you to safeguard liability
• Actions that can be taken to help ensure that contractors or subcontractors perform as required under the agreed upon contract type

Dates / Locations

There are no current sections scheduled for this course number.
Please note that courses have been assigned new numbers beginning with the fall term.
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Fees
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Instructor
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