Sourcing & Solicitation
Create a detailed description of a commodity to effectively communicate to all stakeholders the precise requirements of the end user, and to maximize competition in the marketplace.
What is Specification Development
Employ strategies and processes to ensure quality and to verify that commodities conform to specifications and other contractual requirements.
What is quality assurance, inspection and acceptance
Apply legal limits to authority and the practice of public procurement from legislative, administrative, and common law.
What is enabling regulations & compliance?
Establish agreements based on the characteristics and quality of purchased products through the use of standards.
What is standardization?
Develop practical, effective, and audience-targeted communication strategies to achieve objectives.
What is Communication Strategies?
Identify the most favorable sourcing strategy and the most favorable contract structure while complying with applicable laws, policies, and procedures.
What is Sourcing and Contract Methods
Ensure oversight and control of inventory to minimize the invested funds while optimizing commodities available for the entity.
Asset & Inventory Management
Understand the relationship between ethics and the law, the relationship between ethics and professional duties, and the importance of ethics in public procurement.
What is Ethics, Integrity and Transparency?
Determine end user requirements in terms of quantity, frequency, characteristics, and market trends to obtain a best-value procurement.
What is requirements planning & understanding?
Analyze future entity needs and demands to ensure proper staffing, resources, contracts, and lean processes are in place to promote continuity of operations.
What is Business Management & Continuity?
Justify the best methodology and criteria to consider the management, financial strength, ethics, past performance, and technical capabilities of suppliers.
What is Evaluation Methods
Develop a plan for surplus commodities to be disposed of in the best manner, for excess property to be appropriately reallocated, and for effectively closing out a contract file.
Surplus, Disposal, & Closeout
Comply with legislation, legal principles, and public procurement best practices at different levels of government.
What is Legislation & Legal Environment?
Analyze the functions of internal and external systems and products to satisfy the required purpose at the lowest price without impacting either the need of the end user, or the suitability of the purpose.
Employ digital systems that enable efficient and effective procurement in support of entity mission and goals.
What is Technology Management?
Demonstrate effectiveness in three phases of the negotiation process: preparation, negotiation and agreement.
What is negotiations
Demonstrate the ability to plan, implement, and control the efficient and effective transportation and storage of commodities from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption.
What is Logistics & Transportation
Develop and manage project scope through effective oversight and management of budgets, schedules, and timelines.
What is Program Implementation & Management?
Evaluate the overall supplier market dynamics, costs, pricing, and commodity trends to enable strategic purchasing.
What is Market Analysis & Forecasting?
Develop the strategic vision, make strategic decisions based on theory and public management practices required to impact logistics and supply chain activities.
What is Transformation & Vision Creation?
Resolve complaints or objections by suppliers during the procurement process based on applicable laws and entity policies and procedures.
What is protests & appeals
Draft and finalize a legally enforceable contract. Manage all parties and stakeholders to ensure obligations are fulfilled as defined within the contract while documenting and maintaining the contract file.
What is Contract Management & Performance
Provide advice on a variety of procurement-related topics to end users, stakeholders, and management.
What is Internal Customers: Advice & Expertise?
Minimize the adverse effects of accidental and unanticipated losses by analyzing the activities of the purchasing function.
What is Risk Analysis?
Use and safeguard financial resources effectively and economically by ensuring decisions and operations are implemented in compliance with applicable policies, procedures, standards, and regulations.
What is Economics, Budget, Financial Management & Accounting?