PROJ6004: Contracts and Procurement All

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Learning Resources

Essential learning resources for all modules

Procurement Management is the knowledge area involved in purchasing or acquiring products,

services, or results from outside the project team, including developing and administering the

contract or purchase order needed to obtain them.

Project Management Institute. (2013a). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide) (5th ed.). Newtown Square, PA: Author.

Chapter 12, ‘Project Procurement Management’

Also retrieved from http://www.pmi.org/

Macbeth, D. K., & Project Management Institute. (2012). Procurement and supply in projects: Misunderstood and under-researched. Newtown Square, Pa: Project Management Institute.

Subject, and assessment speci�c, case study provided by Learning Facilitator.

Essential learning resources for this module:

Government of South Australia, State Procurement Board. (2014). Procurement Authority and Accreditation. Accreditation - Better Best Practice Handbooks.

Category Three Governance and Performance Management

Retrieved from http://www.spb.sa.gov.au/content/policies-guides/procurement- authority-and-accreditation

For Module 5 the focus area is Category Three document.

Sollish, F., & Semanik, J. (2012). The Procurement and Supply Manager’s Desk Reference. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wiley. For Module 5, the relevant chapters are:

Chapter 10, ‘Contract Formation and Administration for Optimum Supplier Performance’

Chapter 11, ‘Project Management’ pp. 207-210

Essential videos for Module 1

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Procurious HQ. (2015, March 5). Introduction to Procurement: Contract and Performance Management [Online video]. 

ResCare Workforce Services. (2015, July 2). ResCare Workforce Services Network discusses performance-based contracts and WIOA with Rick Beasley [Online video]. 

IRF Washington. (2013, July 17). IRF Videos: Performance-Based Contracts [Online video]. 

Ash Center. (2011, Mar 14). Performance Based Contracting: Finalist Presentation [Online video]. 

Nevada GOE. (2014, Aug 13). Performance Contracting in Nevada [Online video]. 

Highly recommended reading (Applies to all assessments)

James North. (2014, May 13). Outcome-based Contracting is on the up: Who’s doing it, why, and what you need to know about it.

CIPS and NIGP. (2012). Public Procurement Practice: Performance Based Contracting. 

The White House: O�ce of Management and Budget. (1998, Oct). A Guide to Best Practices for Performance-based Service Contracting.

Benjamin Loevinsohn. 2008. Performance-Based Contracting for Health Services in Developing Countries: Section 2 &3. (A Toolkit: The World Bank).

KPMG International (2015). Public Private Partnership.

Shaw, Carol Lyle. (2012). Virtual Team Success Pyramid.

Other recommended reading

Chen, C., & Yang, C. (2002). An Objective-Oriented Rating System of Vendor Quality Performance. Quality Engineering, 15(1), 147.

Khan, S. (2013). Unwritten ground rules (UGRS) in public procurement in developing countries. Journal of Public Procurement, 13(2), 176-214.

Pezhman, K., Nasim, S., & Zahra, G. (2013). A methodology to choose appropriate procurement standards in water and sewage projects. Management Science Letters, (12), 3043.

MetricStream (2014). Supplier performance management: Integrating supplier quality and supply chain risk management.

Meybodi, M. Z. (2013). Alignment of strategic benchmarking performance measures: a lean manufacturing perspective. Advances in Competitiveness Research, (1-2), 14.

Boyce, T., & Lake, C. (2009). Chapter 2: The contract.  In, Commercial Manager (pp. 31-72). Thorogood Publishing Ltd.

Boyce, T., & Lake, C. (2009). Chapter 3: Contract performance.  In, Commercial Manager (pp. 73-107). Thorogood Publishing Ltd.

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