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Contract Management and the Procurement Act 2023
Event summary
CIPFA Procurement Network invites you to attend the first in a new three-part series of events to support public bodies get to grips with contract management obligations under the Procurement Act 2023.
Date
13 February 2025
Starts: 09:30
Ends: 15:45
Location
online
Standard price
£245.00 excl VAT
Network Member Price
£125.00 excl VAT
Event booking is currently unavailable online. If you would like to book onto this event, please contact customerservices@cipfa.org or 020 7543 5600
About this event
Contracting authority’s relationships and contracts with third party suppliers are key to the organisation’s success. The Procurement Act 2023 has far-reaching consequences for organisations, as procurement rules have been significantly expanded to introduce a range of procedural requirements for the performance management of contracts. There are several new contract management obligations the contracting authority will need to understand and comply with, otherwise suppliers will have grounds to bring action for breach of statutory duty where “procurement”, including contract management, has been undertaken otherwise than in accordance with duties under the Act.
This new series of one-day webinars have been specially developed to provide an in-depth and practical insight into the theory and application of what organisations need to do as part of post award contract management. The series will be delivered over three days, each covering a distinct area, as follows:
Day 1 - When Contract Management met the Procurement Act 2023
Day 2 - The culture of successful contract management (March 2025, date TBC).
Day 3 - The contract management best practice framework of activities, processes and controls (April 2025, date TBC).
You are welcome to attend individual or the full series of events.
Who should attend?
This series of events is designed for public sector contract managers and those involved in managing suppliers. It is particularly aimed at new entrants to the profession, as well as experienced practitioners who need to refresh their knowledge. It will also support those whose role is reliant on successful contract management including procurement staff or project managers.
How will you benefit?
The event will offer you an opportunity to understand:
- What will public sector contract managers have to do to comply with the Procurement Act 2023?
- How do we identify risk areas and contracts that need more attention?
- What are the key risks at each stage of a contract’s lifecycle and what can be done to manage these risks?
- What are the key roles and areas of responsibility?
- What is required to develop a consistent and effective approach to contract management?
- Support development of a PA23 contract management checklist
CPD hours
This event carries 5.5 CPD hours.
Topics
- Commercialisation
- / Education finance and academies
- / Efficiency
- / Local government
- / Transformation
- / Value for money
Speaker - Mohamed Hans, Procurement Advisor, CIPFA Procurement and Commissioning Network (CPCN)
Mohamed joined CIPFA in 2004, after working as a senior commercial solicitor for a number of West Yorkshire local authorities. He is an expert on the European Public Procurement Rules, and has written extensively on this topic. He has also developed widely-used practitioner toolkits. He is also invited to speak at conferences (UK and abroad) and is often the first point of contact for practitioners understanding complex procurement issues. He manages the CIPFA Procurement and Commissioning Network, which has nearly 100 member authorities.
Email: mohamed.hans@cipfa.org
Tel: 07717 345188.
Speaker - Walter Akers
Walter specialises in advising enterprises on contract risk and procurement and maximising value from complex commercial arrangements. He has a track record of successfully delivering evidence-based improvement, cost savings and performance recovery on large complex contractual arrangements.
Walter has worked at board level with some of the world’s leading multinational companies, across a number of industries, as well as UK central government departments and local authorities. He has expertise in helping clients at all phases of the contract life cycle, both pre and post award, from business case assessment, through post award transition, contract deployment, and contract management; to contract close and exit.