Elements and Performance Criteria
- Direct planning for project contracting and procurement
- Direct set up of contract and procurement process
- Direct project managers to source organisations that meet procurement requirements
- Establish selection processes and selection criteria, in consultation with stakeholders, and arrange for communication to prospective contractors
- Ensure contract and procurement actions accord with organisation and program objectives
- Direct management of contract and procurement process
- Provide direction for requirements of proposals and arrange communication to prospective contractors
- Ensure responses are evaluated and preferred contractors are selected in accordance with agreed selection processes
- Direct negotiation of contract terms and conditions between client and preferred contractor
- Direct management of contracts
- Direct management of contract and procurement activities in accordance with program contract and procurement management guidelines
- Provide direction for regular reviews from available records and information, and ensure variances are analysed and changes are agreed for implementation
- Ensure project managers work within the legal and organisational framework for contracts
- Identify potential, perceived and actual contractual conflicts and approve remedial actions to minimise disruption
- Direct finalisation of contracts
- Direct finalisation activities for management of contract deliverables in accordance with contractual project and program requirements
- Direct review and analysis of project outcomes to determine the effectiveness of contract and procurement processes and procedures
- Aggregate and use lessons learned for application in planning and implementation of later projects within the program and, where appropriate, pass on to organisational management for use in strategic planning