LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
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Learning & Development.
We've pulled together some useful links, available training and a guide as to the minimum you should be considering based on the size/ spend of your housing association.
Useful Resources
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Learning Tiers.
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Smaller sized contracting authorities
Spend up to £50m per year
Average procurement team of 2
EXPECTATED KNOWLEDGE
Contract register, Contract tiering tool (contract classification), risk registers for gold and some silver contracts. Collaboration with other contracting authorities on procurement and basic category planning (upcoming procurement activity – extensions, new contracts required, spend per category).
Monitoring contract spend for payments reporting.
RECOMENDED TRAINING
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Transforming Public Procurement e-learning.
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Contract tiering tool and risk registers.
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Pipeline planning.
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Contract spend.
TRAINING FOR STAKEHOLDERS
Contract managers: risk register completion and supplier relationship management.
Legal team: TPP e-learning
Senior leadership: understanding reqs of gold/ silver/ bronze and the risk assessment; supplier contract spend control/ contract modifications.
2
Medium sized contracting authorities
Spend £50m - £100m per year
Average procurement team of 6
EXPECTATED KNOWLEDGE
Contract register, contract tiering tool (contract classification), risk registers for all gold and silver contracts (with annual review).
Collaboration with other contracting authorities on procurement, category planning including informal pipeline planning, market risk in local area and upcoming procurement activity – extensions, new contracts required, spend per category.
Monitoring contract spend for payments reporting.
RECOMENDED TRAINING
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As for tier 1 plus:
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Consider 1 person attending the Advanced Practitioner deep dives
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Category Management
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Sourcing Playbook
TRAINING FOR STAKEHOLDERS
Legal team: Advanced Practitioner deep dives.
3
Larger Contracting authorities
Spend £100m - £200m per year
Spend of £100m - £200m per year
EXPECTATED KNOWLEDGE
Contract register, contract tiering tool (contract classification), risk registers for all gold and silver contracts (with annual review).
Collaboration with other contracting authorities on procurement, in depth category planning including inflation risk and appropriate pricing mechanisms and pipeline plan for publication
Monitoring contract spend for payments reporting
Contract manager training and support on supplier performance
Working with contractors on SME subcontractor payments, supply chain risk.
RECOMENDED TRAINING
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As for tier 2 plus:
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GCF masterclass on inflation and pricing mechanisms
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Contract Management Capability Programme, Foundation stage
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Contract Management Capability Programme, Beyond Foundation
TRAINING FOR STAKEHOLDERS
Contract managers: contract management training