RECORDINGS: Government Procurement Webinar Series 2021

07 September 2021

Please find below recordings from our CPD webinars, along with the relevant presentation slides from our Government Procurement Series hosted throughout 2021.

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If you have any queries about the content of our presentations, or would like to discuss HWL Ebsworth delivering a presentation to your Agency, please contact the presenters directly (their contact details are in their presentation slides) or Katarina Szivek, Business Development Specialist on kszivek@hwle.com.au.

SESSIONSRECORDING & PRESENTATION SLIDES
Part 1 - Planning a Perfect Procurement … Setting Up For Success

The first part in the series examines the earliest stages of procurement starting with identifying what is meant by procurement, how a sourcing need arises, the importance of the business case, the procurement planning phase and developing an appropriate procurement strategy.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 2 – Probity in Procurement

Probity, and the observance of fairness, transparency, equality and ethical dealing is fundamentally important to any project and to the organisations that run them. This session will focus on the five pillars of probity with a special emphasis on the two most important being Value for Money and the avoidance of Conflicts of Interest.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 3 – Procurement Special Event – Current Issues and Updates in Procurement

This year the session will provide an update on:

  • New legislation affecting procurement and particularly Bid and Process Challenges (Public Works and Procurement Act 1912 amendments and Enforceable Procurement Provisions)

  • Sustainable Procurement with a focus on the International Standard on Sustainable Procurement (ISO 20400) and Modern Slavery

  • Procurement during and after Covid-19 – what has changed, what will change back, has procurement changed for good?


1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 4 – Legal Issues and Risks in Procurement

This part will focus on the legal issues and risks that present themselves when undertaking a procurement process. These include:

  • The formation of a process contract

  • Negligence, Misleading and Deceptive Conduct, and Estoppel

  • Legislative Challenge

  • Damages for breach

  • Excluding / Limiting liability

  • Preliminary Discovery

  • Some War Stories


1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 5 – Tender Assessment

In this part we examine the assessment of tenders, and the evaluation process in detail. This looks at what value for money really means, what we mean by whole of life / life cycle costing, and how we carry out an effective Multi Attribute Decision Analysis process to ensure that we properly weight and value all aspects of a procurement adopting best practice in Sustainable Procurement Decision Making. This will explain the core methodology of Sustainable Procurement including Economic, Environmental and Social Procurement.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 6 – Innovations in Procurement

Procurement is ever changing and evolving with different, alternative and innovative procurement methods constantly emerging. This part will focus on two in particular being:

  • Early Contractor Involvement (Early Contractor Engagement/ Competitive Dialogue/ Early Tenderer Involvement)

  • Market Led Proposals / Unsolicited Proposals

  • Tenderer Negotiations


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Part 7 – Managing Procurement

Having planned a perfect procurement activity, received a variety of excellent compliant proposals, assessed the bids and identified the one that is best value for money you then need to finalise the contract and manage the contract to ensure that you receive what it is that you engaged with the market to deliver.

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Part 8 – Top Ten Issues for 2021/2022

A round up of the hottest topics and innovations in Procurement for the year gone by.

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Please note the CPD process is one of self-accreditation and CPD categories listed above are a guide only.

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