We run complimentary webinars exclusively for the UK MOD, as part of our ongoing corporate agreement. These webinars are designed to upskill you in your role, ensure consistency across the MOD and help secure best possible outcomes for your projects.

The tender assessment phase is critical to the success of any procurement. Your team has worked hard to produce the tender documents, the bidders have worked all hours to produce their responses, the submission deadline and assessment phase are imminent. How your evaluators and moderators conduct the assessment phase will make the difference between a successful or unfavourable outcome – it’s time to prepare the assessment team.

The Weighting Workshop tool provides project teams with the ability to develop robust weightings against their criteria set. It enables thorough testing and sensitivity analysis to be carried out, ensuring that the desired, best value for money outcome is achieved from the competition. Buyers who are procuring goods or services in the current climate face an ever increasing challenge to ensure that the purchase decision not only provides value for money, but just as critically, that the process itself is defendable and transparent.

Duration: 1 day Location: This one day course can be run either online or face to face (for up to 10 attendees). Why attend? On this course you will learn how to use AWARD® most effectively to support your procurement project activities. You will gain the knowledge you need to make decisions about how to best deploy AWARD® and ensure that the procurement process runs smoothly. Course overview With a ‘hands-on’ approach and interactive classroom teaching, this course includes the completion of exercises in AWARD®. It is delivered in two distinct parts, relating to different points in the procurement lifecycle. Part 1 is delivered at the beginning of the planning stage to ensure you have full awareness of the AWARD® functionality before making key decisions about how you’ll exchange information with bidders and undertake their evaluation. Part 2 covers the stage just before the actual supplier selection activities start and ensures you are able to adminster AWARD® before it is used in a live environment. Who should attend? Procurement team members responsible for delivering an evaluation process using AWARD® Procurement team members involved in the day-to-day management or administration of their supplier selection activities Supplier selection project managers or administratorsProcurement officers considering using AWARD® Key topics Understanding key AWARD® concepts Managing the evaluation process Managing issues and clarifications Enabling fast and dynamic access to evaluation documentation Producing reports to support decision-making and negotiations Producing and managing audit trails in AWARD®

Duration: 1 day Location: This one day training course can be run either online or face to face (for up to ten attendees). Why attend? This interactive course gives you all the essential skills to start using AWARD® to effectively configure and manage your procurement projects. Course description This course is run regularly and is available as part of the ExpertAssist package focusing on the use of standard AWARD® features. The course is delivered through a combination of interactive classroom teaching and ‘hands-on’ tutorial-based exercises within AWARD®. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to ask any questions you have about the use of AWARD®. Although the course is based around the standard use of AWARD®, you’ll also learn how the principles and techniques discussed can be easily applied to customer specific project configurations. Course objective Learn all the essential skills to start using AWARD® to successfully manage and configure your procurement projects. Who should attend? Customers with the AWARD® ExpertAssist package who are going to manage simple projects using AWARD® and those who are new to running projects in AWARD® or would like a refresher. Experienced AWARD® administrators are welcome to attend – although it may be less relevant for them, there will be opportunity to ask any questions they may have around the use of AWARD®. Key topics Creating Exercises Setting up Answer Measures Creating Questions Setting up and assigning users to questions Upload of bid documents Managing evaluators’ work Reporting during and at the end of the project A demonstration of the esourcing transfer process

We’re committed to helping you cultivate your skills and knowledge, supporting you to realise your full potential and get the recognition you deserve. That’s why we developed the AWARD® Accreditation scheme. Designed to recognise the level of expertise you’ve reached in our AWARD® training, the badges help you to build a complete picture of your learning and achievements. Our three digital badges: Foundation, Intermediate and Expert can be used online to promote the level of accreditation you’ve reached with your contacts and wider network.

This Masterclass Series is your unique chance to tap into our world-leading expertise and learn directly from our trusted team, who support some of the largest, most complex projects globally. With a combined 150+ years’ experience supporting and developing public sector evaluation, our expert consultants know complex procurement inside out, and are ready to impart this knowledge to your organisation. Bringing together 5 component courses, the Series covers everything your team needs to know to deliver procurement excellence. The 5 key topics address the most challenging areas in major procurement projects, and provide the skills and confidence to transform future project outcomes.

This course is for people within a procurement team who need to understand how AWARD® can be used to support their procurement and/or who are involved in the day-to-day management or administration of their supplier selection activities. The primary objective of the course is to ensure that attendees understand how to most effectively use AWARD® in support of these activities.

Incorporating the delivery of Social Value into public sector procurement is now a critical element of the procurement process, with many governments mandating a minimum threshold. In the UK, for example, Social Value should account for at least 10% of the tender score. In order to evaluate a response in relation to Social Value, a project team must understand what ‘good’ Social Value looks like and how that is articulated. Whilst there is guidance available, such as The Social Value Model and public sector policies, it is often difficult to understand how to apply them to the contract and how to effectively differentiate between suppliers.