Procurement
•Description: This involves efforts to purchase resources (personnel, materiel (hardware/software/tools) or services not available internal to the team. This topic includes contract management, change control, contract/purchase order management, bidding, proposal review, contract award and contract termination.
•Why it is important: This task involves legally binding agreements between vendors/suppliers/contractors that obligates buyer and seller to perform specific actions that can influence, budget, schedule, performance and impact risk and quality of the end product.
•Tools: Make or buy decisions, contract types, bidder conferences, proposal evaluation techniques, independent estimates, advertising, lessons learned, internet searches, procurement negotiations, change control system, performance reviews, inspections and audits, payment systems, claims administration and records management.
•How Wright Management and Consulting Group performs this task: One-on-one discussions with stakeholders/project owners, interviews, literature reviews, subject matter expert interviews, document results and use appropriate tools to define products and review with customer to fine tune, obtain written agreement to proposed plan.
•Link to other project tasks: Careful wording of contract vehicles can reduce or eliminate certain risks and provide resources that project team needs but are not internal to the organization.
•Training/mentoring offered: Types of contracts, proposal evaluation techniques, lessons learned, market analysis, report writing.
•Why it is important: This task involves legally binding agreements between vendors/suppliers/contractors that obligates buyer and seller to perform specific actions that can influence, budget, schedule, performance and impact risk and quality of the end product.
•Tools: Make or buy decisions, contract types, bidder conferences, proposal evaluation techniques, independent estimates, advertising, lessons learned, internet searches, procurement negotiations, change control system, performance reviews, inspections and audits, payment systems, claims administration and records management.
•How Wright Management and Consulting Group performs this task: One-on-one discussions with stakeholders/project owners, interviews, literature reviews, subject matter expert interviews, document results and use appropriate tools to define products and review with customer to fine tune, obtain written agreement to proposed plan.
•Link to other project tasks: Careful wording of contract vehicles can reduce or eliminate certain risks and provide resources that project team needs but are not internal to the organization.
•Training/mentoring offered: Types of contracts, proposal evaluation techniques, lessons learned, market analysis, report writing.