This course is for people within a procurement team who need to understand how AWARD® can be used to support their procurement and/or who are involved in the day-to-day management or administration of their supplier selection activities.
The primary objective of the course is to ensure that attendees understand how to most effectively use AWARD® in support of these activities.
Who should attend?
- Procurement team members responsible for delivering an evaluation process using the AWARD® solution
- Procurement officers considering the use of AWARD®
- Supplier selection project managers or administrators
Key Topics
- An overview of AWARD®
- Evaluation using AWARD®
- Understanding key AWARD® concepts
- Enabling fast and dynamic access to evaluation documentation
- Managing the evaluation process
- Monitoring evaluation progress
- Managing issues and clarifications
- Producing reports to support decision-making and negotiations
- Producing and managing audit trails in AWARD®
Overview
The AWARD® User course is taught using a ‘hands-on’ approach, with interactive classroom teaching supported by exercises using the AWARD® software running on laptops.
It has been designed to be delivered in two distinct parts, relating to different points in the procurement life-cycle.
The course is offered to project team members, delivered on-site for up to 10 attendees.
Part 1
Teaches how AWARD® can be most effectively used to support supplier selection activities by covering all the key concepts of AWARD®.
It gives attendees the knowledge they need to be able to make decisions about how to best deploy AWARD®, ensuring that the procurement process runs smoothly and makes full use of its capabilities.
Part 1 is ideally delivered at the beginning of the planning stage in order that the attendees have full awareness of AWARD® functionality before making key decisions about how they will exchange information with bidders and undertake their evaluation.
Part 2
Expands on the concepts covered in Part 1 to cover the various day-to-day tasks required to manage supplier selection activities in AWARD®.
This knowledge will enable attendees to be able to manage and administer the AWARD® system whilst it is being using by the wider team.
Part 2 addresses the phase after the planning stage – just before the actual supplier selection activities start. This ensures that attendees are able to administer AWARD® before it is used in a live environment.
Attendees will
Part 1
- Be taken through all the key AWARD® concepts
- Learn about all key AWARD® concepts and features
- Learn how to make best use of AWARD® to support their supplier selection activities
- Get ‘hands-on’ use of AWARD®
Part 2
- Be reminded about the key AWARD® concepts
- Get ‘hands-on’ use of AWARD®
- Learn how to manage the evaluation process using AWARD®, including:
- Adding users and assigning user profiles
- Managing tender documentation
- Managing the evaluation process
- Issue / clarification management
- Producing reports
- Get ‘hands-on’ use of AWARD®
Further Information and Bookings
The 1-day on-site course is for up to 10 attendees.
Please note that a laptop with internet access is required for each attendee.
Further details of our courses can be found on our Training webpage.
For more information about our courses or to book a place, please contact us on +44 (0) 1235 431100 or info@commercedecisions.com.
Duration
1 day
Price
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