Elements and Performance Criteria
- Conduct procurement business analysis
- Analyse organisation’s corporate procurement plan, procurement-related expenditure, associated levels of risk and supply markets.
- Prepare a procurement profile that identifies past and projected procurement expenditure and associated levels of risk.
- Undertake supply positioning and categorise goods and services by their relative expenditure and difficulty of securing supply to assist in the development of procurement objectives.
- Use supplier preferences to identify how suppliers view the organisation as a client.
- Identify and document other factors likely to affect strategic procurement according to organisational requirements.
- Practice due diligence to investigate existing relationships with suppliers, notably coordinated procurement contracts (CPCs) or coordinated procurement opportunities.
- Define procurement requirements
- Determine procurement requirements through consultation and negotiation with stakeholders and experts and define to reflect organisational needs.
- Identify and incorporate accountability measures into procurement plans.
- Obtain appropriations to fund strategic procurement.
- Obtain approvals to address procurement requirements.
- Justify procurement expenditure
- Develop business case with stakeholders to determine viability of proposed procurement expenditure.
- Establish reasons for procurement requirement, timeframes and expected whole-of-life costs and benefits in the business case.
- Develop output specification with stakeholders to assist in achieving procurement outcomes.
- Conduct procurement business analysis
- Analyse organisation’s corporate procurement plan, procurement-related expenditure, associated levels of risk and supply markets.
- Prepare a procurement profile that identifies past and projected procurement expenditure and associated levels of risk.
- Undertake supply positioning and categorise goods and services by their relative expenditure and difficulty of securing supply to assist in the development of procurement objectives.
- Use supplier preferences to identify how suppliers view the organisation as a client.
- Identify and document other factors likely to affect strategic procurement according to organisational requirements.
- Practice due diligence to investigate existing relationships with suppliers, notably coordinated procurement contracts (CPCs) or coordinated procurement opportunities.
- Define procurement requirements
- Determine procurement requirements through consultation and negotiation with stakeholders and experts and define to reflect organisational needs.
- Identify and incorporate accountability measures into procurement plans.
- Obtain appropriations to fund strategic procurement.
- Obtain approvals to address procurement requirements.
- Justify procurement expenditure
- Develop business case with stakeholders to determine viability of proposed procurement expenditure.
- Establish reasons for procurement requirement, timeframes and expected whole-of-life costs and benefits in the business case.
- Develop output specification with stakeholders to assist in achieving procurement outcomes.