Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage contract establishment
- Discuss and agree upon requirements of contracts and strategic initiatives with all parties.
- Assign responsibilities for establishing and carrying out procedures to achieve contract outcomes.
- Establish and implement effective communication strategies and processes to assist ongoing communication between internal and external stakeholders and contractors.
- Perform relationship management with all levels of personnel involved in procurement and contract management, within probity boundaries.
- Establish strategic relationships within probity boundaries to improve procurement capability and performance.
- Update risk management plans.
- Manage contract performance
- Monitor progress of contracts against set targets and performance measures to ensure success of procurement activities.
- Take action to rectify performance where set targets, performance measures and probity requirements are not being met.
- Provide advice and support to solve problems, make improvements and maintain progress.
- Manage disputes promptly according to contractual conditions to achieve resolution and maintain contract performance and progress.
- Seek and negotiate opportunities to continuously improve procurement outcomes with contractors.
- Provide or gain approvals for contract variations that are negotiated and agreed between the parties.
- Provide opportunities for stakeholders and contractors to have input into and receive feedback on progress during the performance of the contract.
- Engage internal and external stakeholders as necessary throughout the life of the contract to maintain progress.
- Manage contract evaluation
- Evaluate contract performance relative to planned performance measures and in consultation with stakeholders and contractors.
- Undertake dispute resolution where stakeholders and contractors do not agree.
- Detail conclusions against agreed criteria to provide a complete picture of performance of contractors, organisation’s procurement processes and value for money.
- Measure performance of strategic initiatives relative to planned outcomes in consultation with industry and other stakeholders.
- Document lessons learnt from evaluations of contracts and strategic initiatives and use to continuously improve future procurement activities.
- Advise contractors and stakeholders of evaluation outcomes.
- Manage contract establishment
- Discuss and agree upon requirements of contracts and strategic initiatives with all parties.
- Assign responsibilities for establishing and carrying out procedures to achieve contract outcomes.
- Establish and implement effective communication strategies and processes to assist ongoing communication between internal and external stakeholders and contractors.
- Perform relationship management with all levels of personnel involved in procurement and contract management, within probity boundaries.
- Establish strategic relationships within probity boundaries to improve procurement capability and performance.
- Update risk management plans.
- Manage contract performance
- Monitor progress of contracts against set targets and performance measures to ensure success of procurement activities.
- Take action to rectify performance where set targets, performance measures and probity requirements are not being met.
- Provide advice and support to solve problems, make improvements and maintain progress.
- Manage disputes promptly according to contractual conditions to achieve resolution and maintain contract performance and progress.
- Seek and negotiate opportunities to continuously improve procurement outcomes with contractors.
- Provide or gain approvals for contract variations that are negotiated and agreed between the parties.
- Provide opportunities for stakeholders and contractors to have input into and receive feedback on progress during the performance of the contract.
- Engage internal and external stakeholders as necessary throughout the life of the contract to maintain progress.
- Manage contract evaluation
- Evaluate contract performance relative to planned performance measures and in consultation with stakeholders and contractors.
- Undertake dispute resolution where stakeholders and contractors do not agree.
- Detail conclusions against agreed criteria to provide a complete picture of performance of contractors, organisation’s procurement processes and value for money.
- Measure performance of strategic initiatives relative to planned outcomes in consultation with industry and other stakeholders.
- Document lessons learnt from evaluations of contracts and strategic initiatives and use to continuously improve future procurement activities.
- Advise contractors and stakeholders of evaluation outcomes.