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NEW!!! Outsourcing - Competitive Bidding and Contracting: Developing Critical Process Competencies

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Seminar #4205
August 3 - 5, 2011
San Francisco, CA

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Overview

What and how to outsource is one of the most important decisions that an organization makes. It is a major cost containment strategy that is being applied across all business activities. As a result supply and contracting organizations are increasing their bidding and contracting skill sets to gain maximum advantage and reduced risk when outsourcing activities. This program focuses on the areas of expertise needed by those involved in the outsourcing process so that the primary objectives of outsourcing will be met.

Who Should Attend
  • Supply Management, Procurement, Contracts, and Project personnel,
  • Engineering, Operational, and Maintenance personnel
  • And all others who are involved in the planning, evaluation, preparation and management of outsourcing initiatives, bidding and evaluation processes, and contracts that cover the outsourcing of in-house activities as well as the acquisition of materials, equipment, services, and who are in organizations whose leadership want high levels of competency in those involved in these activities.
You Will Learn...
  • Increased skill sets in outsourcing
  • Criteria for outsourcing
  • Outsourcing Options
  • Elements of a good outsourcing process
  • Important contract clauses
  • The meaning of fair and reasonable pricing
  • Types of Statement of Work
  • About Performance Based Service Contracts
  • Contract types to transfer risk
  • New techniques in bid evaluation
  • Payment methods
  • Economic Price Adjustments for Long Term Agreements
You Will Earn...

21.00 continuing education hours
Course Outline
  1. Why outsource, criteria for outsourcing, what can be outsourced, International labor rates, outsourcing options,
  2. Political implications of outsourcing, sustainability and social responsibility, intelligent customer capability
  3. Dealing with the "Come- to- Knows", the critical statement of work, types of statement of work, performance based service contracts
  4. Major objectives of the contract, risk assessment, contract types to transfer risk, economic price adjustments for long term agreements
  5. Identifying contract clauses, the integration clause, the critical acceptance clause, liquidated damages clause, warranties
  6. Elements of a best practices outsourcing & competitive bidding process, developing tender evaluation criteria, expressive bidding
  7. Fair and reasonable pricing, total cost of ownership, what does your force majeure clause cover, dealing with contract changes
  8. Payment methods, advance and progress payments, ways in which contracts end types of bonds & guarantees

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Executive Conference Center
2nd Level
San Francisco Marriott
55 Fourth St. – 3rd Floor,
San Francisco, CA 94103
Executive Center: 415/442-6770
Marriott: 800/228-9290

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