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Course Outline
CONTRACTING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
(2 days)
A Two-Day Legal Education Course
Designed Especially for Purchasing, Contracting and Supply Management
Professionals
working in Federal, Municipal and Provincial Governments, and in
Universities, Schools, Hospitals and Crown Organizations
Public Purchasers work in a unique and increasingly complex environment. The profession is fraught with numerous sets of regulations, policies, trade agreements and laws - and numerous legal traps for the unwary. Unlike your counterparts in private industry, you have many goals which at times conflict with each other, many masters who conflict with each other and many critics. Yet, you can get through it all with knowledge and a little bit of care. This course has been designed to help you achieve a job well-done by balancing the many conflicting goals and masters while satisfying the many critics.
Your primary goal is the same as the goal of all Purchasers … to obtain the right goods or services from the best Supplier or Contractor at the right time for the best value. However, unlike the Purchaser in a private company, you have more rules and more challenges to deal with and overcome in achieving that basic goal.
In this course, we examine a number of these multifaceted issues in some detail, and help you understand how to manage the many legal risks inherent in public procurement. In this course we cover:
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the effect of policy on public procurement of goods and services; |
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the Canadian laws of competitive bidding applicable to all Government entities; |
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Canada's national and international Trade Agreements, when and how they apply to your work; |
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a series of short treatments of critical legal issues for public procurement including, when you have to award to the lowest bidder (and when you don't), how to make negotiation with bidders part of your competitive process, how to deal with non-compliant bidders, and what to do if you need to cancel a competitive bid process; |
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important Case Summaries from the Courts of Canada on competitive bidding, prerogative writs and Judicial Reviews, and how some of the most recent changes in law will affect your policies, your procedures, your processes and your position. |
You will come away from this course with a well-rounded knowledge of the laws that affect your day-to-day business and contracting affairs as a public procurement professional. The course will give you the know-how to control legal risks for yourself personally and for your organization. Participants will receive a set of seminar materials of approximately 125 pages to use as a desk top reference.
For more information, please 
For detailed content information, call Bob Worthington at: 604-488-0114.
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Seminars are now being scheduled for the Winter / Spring 2012 season. No public seminars for this course will be scheduled for the foreseeable future. If you have 12 to 40 people in your organization to train, please contact us for an in-house course at rcworthington@shaw.ca. |
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About the Instructor: ROBERT C. WORTHINGTON An award-winning lecturer in law, Robert C. Worthington, LLB, has taught purchasers, contract managers and their legal counsel throughout Canada for over 26 years, specializing in the laws of contract, competitive bidding and procurement. He has written two books on contract and procurement law, designed especially for contracting and purchasing professionals. All of Robert's publications and law seminars are entertaining as well as informative. For more information, please check out the links on this website. |
WORTHINGTON
AND ASSOCIATES LTD.
Box 34192 Station D
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6J 4N1
email: rcworthington@shaw.ca
Tel: (604) 488-0114
