Diploma of Procurement and Contracting (VIC, NSW, QLD & SA Only)

This unit describes the skills required to apply advanced planning to complex procurement within established guidelines, policies and procedures.

This unit describes the skills required to manage risks associated with all stages of procurement. It includes assessing risk, and preparing, implementing and reviewing a risk management plan.

This unit describes the skills required to promote ethical standards to assist staff in avoiding conflicts of interest and to model and foster integrity.

This unit describes the skills required to promote compliance with legislation in the public sector. It includes modelling compliance with legislation.

This unit describes the skills required to undertake research and analysis. It includes identifying and analysing information, applying the results and maintaining and compiling reports from information systems.

This unit describes the skills required to perform advanced decision making for complex procurement within established guidelines, policies and procedures.

This unit describes the skills required to undertake negotiations. It includes planning and finalising negotiation outcomes.

This unit describes the skills required to establish arrangements for contract management. It includes confirming contract requirements, preparing a contract management plan, developing stakeholder relationships and implementing contract strategies and contractual arrangements.

This unit describes the skills required to implement strategies that ensure effective contract performance. It includes managing the business relationship, performance of the contract, and contract issues; and implementing a communication strategy.

This unit describes the skills required to finalise processes for contracts. It includes completing contracts and implementing a contract review strategy.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to manage a supply chain, including the relationships between an organisation and its supply and demand partners along the chain.

This unit describes the skills required to plan and implement strategic sourcing for goods or services essential or critical to an organisation’s ability to conduct its core business. It includes developing a procurement profile of the buying organisation, conducting strategic assessment of the supply market, developing strategies to source goods or services from the market and securing, monitoring and reviewing strategic market sources.

This unit describes the skills required to participate in government budget and review processes to ensure that procurement and contract management activities occur within established procedures and financial obligations are fulfilled.