PPMP20011 - Contract and Procurement Management

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

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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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

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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

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 84.62% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 40.63% response rate.

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.

Source: SUTE
Feedback
The unit provided students with an opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge about procurement and contract management
Recommendation
Maintain good teaching practice and continue updating the unit material with research-informed and research-based material
Action Taken
The teaching staff practised very interactive and student-centred teaching pedagogy. Some unit materials were updated based on real-life case studies and up-to-date research materials.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Peer assessment for assignment one provided an opportunity to learn from other students' work and reflect on my own knowledge and understanding of the unit material
Recommendation
Provide clear guidelines and examples for conducting the peer assessment by students
Action Taken
Assessment 1 included the peer assessment, allocating 10% of total marks. There was an example and practice session for conducting the peer assessment.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Learning from this unit was a good experience. Instructions, guidelines and teaching from the unit coordinator and tutor was good.
Recommendation
The teaching team will continue to provide outstanding academic support for the students and give them a better education and learning experience at CQU.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Very supportive and great skills to communicate.
Recommendation
This practice will be continued with a continuous improvement goal for more effective communication.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
When it came to reviewing a submitted assessment or class task, some students believed that more attention and focus response time to emails could have been more timely.
Recommendation
The teaching staff, including the Unit Coordinator, will reply to students' queries and give them sufficient feedback on time in the future.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Teaching team
Feedback
There was a peer assessment practice item on Moodle. However, most of the students did not practice enough, which impacted their submissions and gradings.
Recommendation
The peer assessment practice session must be continued. The unit coordinator can make a video on how to do the peer assessment. The tutors can have a session or a part of a session where students will practice the peer assessment tasks in the tutorial session. 
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes
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