We’re committed to helping you cultivate your skills and knowledge, supporting you to realise your full potential and get the recognition you deserve.
That’s why we developed the AWARD® Accreditation scheme. Designed to recognise the level of expertise you’ve reached in our AWARD® training, the badges help you to build a complete picture of your learning and achievements.
Our three digital badges: Foundation, Intermediate and Expert can be used online to promote the level of accreditation you’ve reached with your contacts and wider network.
AWARD® Foundation
The first part of the course is delivered by an AWARD® expert who will start with the basics such as setting up users. At the end of the course, you will have the knowledge to create, manage and effectively run projects using AWARD®, seamlessly mapping into your own organisation’s best practice.
To qualify for the AWARD® Foundation Certification, you must have successfully completed two days of formal classroom training.
You will have independently built, configured and managed an AWARD® evaluation project, and demonstrated competency in the core AWARD® Evaluation module. For the certification to be issued, your project must have been verified by a Commerce Decisions Procurement Consultant.
As a badge earner, you are also able to show understanding of the following AWARD® topics:
- Question levels and hierarchy
- Evidence item import and mapping
- Document group types and controlling visibility of the document contained within these
- Answer measures and answer types including the AWARD® aggregation methods
- Project Roles
- Submission management
- Exercise configuration to support process
- Assessor work assignments
- eSourcing transfer process (where used)
- Results reporting
- Supplier portal (licence dependent)
- Supplier management
- AWARD® Communications model
AWARD® Intermediate
Once you’ve achieved the AWARD® Foundation accreditation, you can complete the Intermediate Level 2 training. This is suitable for more experienced users who have built a number of projects in AWARD®.
To qualify for the AWARD® Intermediate Certification, you must have successfully passed your foundation accreditation and completed additional formal classroom training. You will have already demonstrated competency in building and managing an AWARD® Evaluation Project. This certification is designed to progress your knowledge to allow you to become super users within your organisation.
You will have demonstrated your ability to apply your AWARD® knowledge in different contexts. You will also be able to utilise the advanced features of AWARD® safely and appropriately. For the certification to be issued, you must have completed assessed scenario-based activities, within a replica AWARD® project, designed to assimilate challenges experienced on a ‘real world’ procurement project. You will also have constructed a multi-project which has been reviewed by a Commerce Decisions consultant.
As a badge earner, you will also be able to show understanding of the following AWARD® topics:
- Multi-Lot Project configuration and reporting
- Custom reports and Report Packs
- Advanced Exercise Configuration Options; Expected Assessor Count, Default Answer Status, Manual Assignment of Submission to Users
- AWARD® Debrief Exercise setup and use
- Application of different aggregation methods; Weighted Sum, Weighted Average
- Workgroups and Restricted Document access
- Account administration
- Revisions
- Advanced Supplier Portals (licence dependent)
- AWARD® Data Room (licence dependent)
- Supplier Self Registration (licence dependent)
AWARD® Expert
This highest level of accreditation is available for AWARD® users who have completed levels 1 and 2.
Once you’ve started applying the knowledge you’ve gained, we’ll conduct a remote peer review session of 2 procurement projects you’ve completed over a time period. This will help us to understand which AWARD® topics you may need further support on.
To qualify for the AWARD® Expert Certification, you must first have successfully passed your foundation and intermediate certification.
- You must then have then independently configured and managed an additional two AWARD® evaluation projects.
- For the certification to be issued, these projects must have been verified by a Commerce Decisions Procurement Consultant.
- You will have demonstrated a high degree of competency in managing your evaluations within the AWARD® Software.
- You will be a super user within your organisation and able to support concurrent procurements being managed within the AWARD® software by your organisation.
- In addition to this as an AWARD® Expert you have demonstrated that you can manage your organisation’s users and licences at the account level.
Sharing your success
We’ll issue your digital badge once you’ve successfully completed each level of your training.
Simply download your badge and you can start sharing it straight away via an email signature, website, social media platform or a digital CV. Our digital badges are secure, verifiable and fully compliant with the latest open badges standard platform.
Find out more
For more information about our AWARD® accreditation courses which can be run online or face to face, or to book your place, please contact us.
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