Developing Contacts in Procurement and supply

Assessment criteria

Distinction

Merit

Pass

Fail

Application and Insight 40%

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Knowledge and Approach 20%

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Research 20%

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Structure and Presentation 20%

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Strengths and weaknesses of the Assessment:

You have made some major changes to your work. Your report began with a revised executive summary; however, this did not provide a summary of the key parts of your report or a summary of your findings. Instead it covered issues including total cost of ownership and partnerships which were not the subject of the assignment or covered in any depth within your main body. Your recommendations were also very generic and not focused on the assignment tasks. See the Candidate Assignment Guidance document for more information on the requirements of the executive summary.

It would also have been useful to include some information about your organisation in order to provide some context for your report.

In terms of task one you did cover the risks highlighted in the question and did provide some discussion on your terms and conditions. However, this was very general and could have been supported by the inclusion of extracts from your organisation’s terms and conditions. You also could have referred to external sources in this section to support your discussion, as well as to elements from the syllabus. The lack of any inclusion of external sources or elements of the syllabus in this section resulted in it being very descriptive rather than analytical in approach.

You did provide a discussion on the Battle of the Forms which did include some reference to external sources, but you could also have included some reference to case law. However, whilst you briefly discussed how your organisation deals with the Battle of the Forms, this could have been expanded upon

to include other approaches that could be adopted to avoid the Battle of the Forms. However, you did consider the consequences to your organisation of losing the battle.

Your section on contract management did cover the issue of inspections during the contract’s duration. However, you could also have discussed the development and use of KPIs. This section could have been enhanced had you provided some specific examples of KPIs used within your organisation’s contracts and had you included some references to external sources to support your discussion.

You also provided a very brief conclusion section which did provide very brief a summary of your main findings and this could have been expanded. You did include some recommendations; however, these were very brief and could have been both better linked to the findings within the main body and expanded upon. Also, you could have considered the implementation challenges of your recommendations.

You could have expanded your research in connection with this topic and also made more use of your external research within the main body of your report to support your discussions. Your reference list consisted of only two sources.