APS Contract Management Workshop
May 20th, 2025 / Online
OVERVIEW
• Know your obligations under the Commonwealth Resource Management Framework
• Specify your business needs and establish the criteria required to meet them
• Negotiate from a position of strength – not just splitting the difference
• Enhance the value-for-money use of your limited budget allocation
TRAINER
Kevin Riley
Kevin has over 30 years of experience in financial and performance management, including budgeting. His background includes working with Treasury and Finance departments at both the Commonwealth level and across all Territory and State jurisdictions. Kevin is a Fellow of both Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and CPA Australia. In 2022, he was awarded the National Fellowship by the Institute of Public Administration Australia. Additionally, he is a Qualified Accountant with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (UK).
Leadership Expert & Executive Coach
Capital Training College
AGENDA
Workshop
Aligning your skills with the demands of your organisation
- Apply the Commonwealth Resource Management Framework to your procurement and contract management
- Determine required business needs and explore alternative options for achieving them
- Establish criteria for evaluating the ability of suppliers to meet the required business needs
- Develop a business case for undertaking your procurement activity, including the identification and assessment of relevant procurement risks
Enhancing value-for-money procurements
- Comply with relevant Commonwealth Procurement Rules and AusTender requirements, including the determination of your expectations about value-for-money
- Document the evaluation of responses to your procurement activities
- Determine a negotiation strategy that will enhance the achievement of value for money
Managing contracts that deliver on time and on budget
- Confirm the deliverables and timeframes to be set out in contractual arrangements
- Assess and overcome contract management risks
- Developing your compliance with the efficient, effective, economical and ethical use and management of public resources
Managing a contract once it has been completed
- Report on management activities to achieve successful contract management
- Contribute to the successful handover of contract management responsibilities
- Practical relationship management tools
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Kevin Riley Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Capital Training College
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