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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This Contract and Procurement Management unit will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and techniques required for acquiring external products, results, and services to meet the needs of the company and to achieve the project goals. It also offers you the opportunity to identify, apply, and develop different negotiation strategies as well as assessing and responding to the potential risks encountered during the procurement. You will study contract types, procurement standards, legal and ethical aspects of commercial contracts as well as project tendering and awarding. On successful completion of this unit, you will have the capacity to apply the appropriate practices for managing contracts, conflicts, delays, claim, and disputes.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Co- requisites: PPMP20007
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2021
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from SUTE feedback
Students appreciated the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of the unit.
Maintain good teaching practice and offer the students the opportunity to take part in the learning process through group discussions and to share the teaching team own experience with the students.
Feedback from SUTE
The unit content allowed for a clear linkage with real-life projects.
Keep offering real-life examples and case studies in the unit content. The assessments are case studies based and this will continue to be the case.
Feedback from SUTE
Written communication for assessment requirements was clear and concise.
Ensure the clarity of the assessment and provide enough time for the students to go through the assessment task by releasing the assessment as early as possible.
- Demonstrate an integrative understanding of the key theories and concepts underpinning buyer-contractor relationships as well as the concepts of project contracts and procurement standards
- Analyse different commercial negotiation strategies and demonstrate an ability to creatively negotiate project plans, conflicts, delays, and incentives in commercial projects
- Employ risk management planning and identification and assess the risk encountered over the procurement process
- Negotiate and analyse the principles of tendering, pricing and awarding techniques and to utilise the negotiation approaches in commercial contracts
- Evaluate and develop clear legal, financial and technical components of project contracts
- Develop a project budget and an expenditure forecast as control mechanisms and link time, cost and resources to the project framework.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 40% | ||||||
| 3 - Group Work - 50% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||||
| 4 - Research | ||||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 40% | ||||||||
| 3 - Group Work - 50% | ||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
Recommended readings
- UN Procurement Practitioners Handbook, 2017
- The Strategic Procurement Practice Guide by U Weigel & M Ruecker, 2017
- A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide); 6th Edition, 2017
- Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling by H Kerzner, 2017
- Negotiation for Procurement Professionals by J O'Brien, 2nd Edition, 2016
- Dispute Resolution in Australia: Cases, Commentary and Materials by D Spencer and S Hardy, 2009
- Design and Managing Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies by Levi et al., 2008
- Building Procurement Methods, CRC Construction Innovation; 2008
- Project Procurement Management by Q W Fleming, 2008
- Sustainable Procurement Guide: Department of the Environment and Energy, Australia, 2018