Suitable for:

Managers, Superintendents, Supervisors, Engineers and all personnel at all levels who have responsibility for managing contracts.

Summary:

This course is designed to make delegates aware of their roles and responsibilities within the company's contract process and ensure that contracts are managed at minimum cost. The topics covered will include:

> The role of the Contract Manager
> Defining roles and responsibilities within the contract team
> Definition of a Contract / ProcessContracts parameters and strategies
> Principles of contract scheduling and control
> The role of the Tender Board, Shareholders and / or Co-Venturers
> Relationship / risk management
> Developing Tender criteria / evaluation
> Managing conflict using Transactional Analysis

Objectives:

By the end of the course, delegates will:

1)Understand the process involved in awarding and managing contracts
2)Understand their own role and responsibilities within the contracts process
3)Choose the type of contract and compensation terms best suited to the company
4)Prepare tender evaluation criteria and evaluate a tender submission
5) Identify and manage any risks associated with a contract and to ensure cost estimates are not exceeded.

Fees:

£1,650

Excluding accommodation and meals.

Locations & Dates:

Doha - April 04 – 08, 2010
Dubai - April 11 – 15, 2010
Doha - October 17 – 21, 2010
Dubai - December 19 – 23 , 2010

Course Presenter (s):

John Wood BA (Hons) MA (Oxon.)

An Information Systems Manager and management consultant with exceptionally wide experience gained at three major financial institutions and two consultancy firms.

Established Service Management principles and processes, including SLAs, to provide reliable high performance production services, in many organisations, public and commercial. Trained the consultancy team of a major international accounting firm in SLA consultancy, and provided QA on their internal SLA project.

Established profit-centre management methods and SLAs in all departments of a European bank, working on subcontract for one of the 'name' US management consulting firms. Has advised many organisations in managing quality, with training and project workshops for establishing BS5750/ISO 9001 - complaint quality management of IT services. Clients include leading European manufacturers, banks, telecommunications carriers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and market data providers.

Established SLAs in UK central government department in preparation for Market Testing. This contract was won in open tender against the major consulting firms.

Installed a Dealing Room and Integrated Market Data Service system for a leading International bank, based on a Novell/Window/Unix platform. Identified the opportunity and established an application prototyping environment, with a prototype on-line enquiry system for a US bank. Achieved immediate recognition during the Latin American debt crisis by providing information in hours rather than weeks.

Created a prototype system for Eurocurrency trading which enabled the bank to enter that market within weeks of identifying the opportunity. Installed in London a complex PC Local Area Network for equities and gilt's trade processing in support of a systems development project based inthe New York office of a leading Wall Street firm.