OUR SERVICES
Procurement Professionals is experienced at providing the full range of procurement and contract management services. We can manage an end-to-end procurement process for you or provide advice on an as-required basis during a process.
Our services include:
Procurement Planning and Review
- Strategic advice
- Market analysis
- Business Case/Procurement Plan development
- Scheduling of the procurement process through to contract signature
- Risk assessment, including development of mitigation strategies
- Process review and advice.
Procurement Process
- Documentation development – Request for Tender (RFT), Request for Quote (RFQ), Expression of Interest (EOI)
- Evaluation Plan development, including the evaluation methodology, assessment criteria and weightings
- Manage the tender process including:
- Release of RFT/RFQ/EOI to the market
- Prepare and provide industry briefings
- Answer any tenderer queries
- Close, registration and compliance review of tenders
- Evaluation of tenders, including guidance and advice to the Evaluation Team during the evaluation process
- Evaluation Report preparation and presentation to the Delegate/Spending Approver
- Negotiate a contract with the preferred tenderer
- Award of contract to successful tenderer
- Debrief unsuccessful tenderers.
- Contract management planning
- Facilitate contract “kick-off” meetings
- Contract administration – manage payment, review deliverables and monitor service levels
- Contract variations and extensions
- Dispute resolution.
We have an excellent understanding of the tendering process and are therefore uniquely placed to assist in the development of tender responses, including:
- Assistance in the development of a tender response
- Revision of, and advice on how to improve, a tender response.
- Consult with senior management and stakeholders to identify and agree critical negotiation points
- Negotiation Plan development, identifying the points for negotiation, negotiation goals and the negotiation strategy
- Lead or assist in negotiations
- Contract negotiation reporting to summarise negotiation outcomes and recommend next steps, including whether to proceed to contract.
- Probity plans
- Probity briefings
- Conflict of interest assessment and advice
- Ongoing or ad-hoc probity advice during a procurement process
- Practical solutions to probity issues as they arise
- Probity review of documentation or a process.
Procurement Professionals has a large network of professionals to draw on should the need arise. We can also provide services from qualified and experienced:
- Accountants
- Lawyers
- Project Managers
- Administrative Personnel