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 6 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 6, 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 6

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FPPerspectives. (2013, Jun 28). SRM (Supplier Relationship Management): What Problems Should it Aim to Solve? [Online video].

FPPerspectives. (2015, Oct 2). SRM: What are you doing it for? - Part 1 [Online video].

FPPerspectives. (2015, Oct 3). SRM: Meeting the Needs of Stakeholders - Part 2 [Online video].

FPPerspectives. (2015, Oct 4). SRM: De�ning Value for Money - Part 3 [Online video]. 

FPPerspectives. (2015, Oct 5). SRM: The Core Activities - Part 4 [Online video]. 

FPPerspectives. (2013, Jun 27). Five Reasons why your SRM Programme is Failing [Online video]. 

FPPerspectives. (2015, Jun 27). Procurement’s Untapped Opportunity [Online video]. 

Highly recommended reading (Applies to all assessments)

KPMG International (2015). Public Private Partnership. 

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

Other recommended reading

Boyce, T., & Lake, C. (2009). Chapter 1: Commercial awareness.  In, Commercial Manager (pp. 3-29). Thorogood Publishing Ltd.

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.

Project Management Institute. (2013). PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Retrieved from http://www.pmi.org/About-Us/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics.aspx

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Procedures, Guidance, and Information (PGI). 

Federal Acquisition Regulation.