RECORDINGS: Australian Government Procurement Webinar Series, 2022

08 February 2023

Please find below recordings from our CPD webinars, along with the relevant presentation slides from our Australian Government Procurement Webinar Series, 2022.

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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 - 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 focuses 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 2 – Current Issues and Updates in Procurement and ECI and Unsolicited Proposals

This session provides an update on:

  • new legislation affecting procurement and particularly Bid and Process Challenges (Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Act 2018);

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

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

This session also looks at alternative and innovative procurement methods, focusing on two in particular being:

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

  • Market Led Proposals / Unsolicited Proposals.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 3 – Legal Issues and Risks in Procurement

This session focuses on the legal issues and risks that present themselves when undertaking a procurement process, including:

  • the formation of a process contract;.

  • negligence, misleading and deceptive conduct, and estoppel;.

  • legislative challenge - including Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Act 2018;

  • damages for breach;.

  • excluding / limiting liability;.

  • preliminary discovery; and.

  • some war stories.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 4 – Open Q&A

This session is dedicated to procurement queries submitted by the audience.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 5 – Tender Assessment with a focus on Sustainable Procurement

This session examines the assessment of tenders and the evaluation process in detail, including:

  • 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 explains the core methodology of Sustainable Procurement including Economic, Environmental and Social Procurement.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 6 – 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.

This session covers the legal risks associated with mismanagement of contracts and the rights that Government can lose, or liabilities it can create.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 7 – Prickly issues in Procurement

Scott discusses real life procurement war stories, describes the issues that arose and how they were solved. You will gain invaluable insights and tips on pragmatically and commercially solving procurement problems whilst remaining compliant with the legislative and probity requirements.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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Part 8 – Open Q&A

This session is dedicated to procurement queries submitted by the audience.

1 CPD point - Substantive Law
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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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