Worthington & Associates - Secrets of Public Procurement Law

Course Outline

SECRETS OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW

A Legal Education Seminar
with Robert C. Worthington, LLB

This one-day legal education course is designed specifically for public purchasing professionals who need to update their knowledge on important changes to Canadian purchasing law. The course covers three critical areas of public purchasing:

The course covers three critical areas of public purchasing:

•	Competitive Bidding Law - examining the latest decisions of Canadian Courts on disclosure, fairness, non-compliance by Bidders and Owner waiver, and Owner exclusion of liability;
•	Trade Agreement Law – covering the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), the B.C.-Alberta Trade Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA), and the Atlantic Procurement Agreement (APA); and
•	Contract Law – examining the dangers of verbal agreements and the risks of using Consultants during the tendering process.

All topics have been chosen based upon recent Canadian case law decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada, the Courts of Appeal, and other Canadian Courts.

Participants will receive a detailed set of course materials covering the laws and leading cases in each of the topic areas.

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Upcoming Courses

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.

If you are a member of a regional or national purchasing group or professional organization, and wish to host a seminar, please be in touch to request a customized proposal for your membership. Keynote Presentations can be added for conferences, round tables and group meetings.

If you are interested in having a public course in your region, please fill out our Mailing List Form. When we have 25 people from any city interested in a course, we will schedule it in a public venue. Thanks.

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.

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Robert C. Worthington
WORTHINGTON AND ASSOCIATES LTD.
Box 34192 Station D
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6J 4N1
email: rcworthington@shaw.ca
Tel: (604) 488-0114