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Contract Administration for Project Managers

In the course of a Project Manager’s work, dealing with contracts form an indispensable and significant area of responsibilities which also takes up a significant portion of the Project Manager’s time.

This 2-day workshop introduces the most effective and efficient techniques for developing project requirements and structuring solicitations that meet organizational and project objectives to ensure results. Training Instructors for this course are successful industry practitioners with PMP^® credential who will relate their contract administration experiences aligned with industry’s best practices.

Participants who complete this 2 day program will be awarded 14 PDUs to their PMP^® continuous learning

Course Outline

Introduction

• Understand business needs and requirements
• Challenges in contract administration
• Risk-focused solicitation

Plan Acquisitions

• Make-or-buy decision
• Roles and responsibilities
• Best practices and governance

Conduct Solicitation

• Contract types and service definitions
• Performance-based requirements
• Performance measurement metrics
• Creative source selection

Administer Contract

• Monitoring work performance
• Managing contract changes
• Performance-based reporting
• Payment systems and claims administration
• Managing issues and disputes

Contract Closure

• Records management system
• Settlements and audits
• Administrative and contract closure

This 2-day course is perfect for project managers and team leaders who need a well-structured and effective, and risk-focused solicitation process to plan and administer a procurement contract.

How you will benefit from this workshop:

• Proven methods to manage risk throughout the procurement life cycle
• Use powerful techniques to get the real benefits of contractual acquisitions using the best type of contract for your project, balancing the risks between buyer and seller whilst motivating the seller to perform

Methodology

• Real life case studies
• Group discussions & sharing
• Mini lecture

Who Should Attend?

This course is most suitable for:

• project Team leaders
• project Managers
• Project Members assigned the task of Project Administration

Master Trainer

Peter James Gilliland, PMP^®

Peter has over 25 years experience working on engineering projects in the mobile radio & telecommunications infrastructure industry, with 10 years involvement as senior Project Manager with various multinational companies. He has contributed to the successful completion of many complex projects for telecoms service providers and government and private companies including emergency services, petrochemical, process control, mining, utilities, rail and road transportation and many others in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Peter holds the Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential from the Project Management Institute (PMI®). He has a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, a Diploma in Action Based Training from Atlantic International University and is a certified Neuro Linguistics Programming practitioner and coach with the American Board of NLP.

Significant Recent Achievements

Project Management – Peter successfully managed and completed the engineering work of Indonesian Ministry of Forestry Integrated Radio Communications project for Motorola Indonesia during a period of civil unrest, resulting in further orders for system expansion. He also initiated standardized process and supporting documentation for project implementation and profit-margin analysis with Tait Electronics of New Zealand, resulting in faster response to customer requests for quotation and an increase in the number of successful bids.

Training and Consultancy – Peter has conducted training workshops in Project Management and Leadership Skills for public and private sector executives in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and China. They included Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Fairchild Semiconductors, Kulicke & Soffa, Singapore’s Infocomm Development Agency, Singapore Computer Systems, Singapore Technologies, Tetra-Pak, Shell, BP, and many others.

Previous Experience

P.T. Motorola Indonesia Peter worked as a Senior Project Manager with Motorola Inc., responsible for project management of engineering works during the implementation of the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry Integrated Radio Communications project. This US$90m project involved the installation of over 850 radio infrastructure sites in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia, followed by management of the design, engineering, procurement, and installation and commissioning of a US$30m network expansion.

Philips Telecom, UK.

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