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Project Procurement and Supply Chain Management
A practical programme for project managers, procurement managers, supply chain teams, and contract administrators — building procurement planning, sourcing strategy, supplier governance, and contract-risk management capability on major GCC construction and infrastructure projects.
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Description
Programme Highlights
Strategic Procurement Planning
Apply make/buy analysis and packaging strategy matched to real project objectives, not habit or convenience.
Structured Sourcing & Tendering
Design RFP/RFQ structures, evaluation criteria, and tender controls that withstand scrutiny and produce strong bids.
Contract Risk-Aware Selection
Choose the right contract type for each package's risk profile, then negotiate and govern awards with confidence.
Capstone Procurement Strategy & Sourcing Plan
Build a complete procurement strategy and sourcing plan for a sample project package, ready to apply on a live tender.
Course Curriculum — 8 Modules
Project Procurement Strategy
This module builds the strategic foundation every procurement plan should rest on, rather than starting with a tender template. Participants apply structured make/buy analysis, evaluating in-house capability, cost, risk, and schedule against outsourcing options for each major scope element on a GCC construction or infrastructure project. The module covers packaging strategy — deciding how scope is divided into procurement packages, balancing the efficiency of fewer, larger packages against the flexibility and competition benefits of more, smaller packages. Participants examine common procurement routes (traditional, design-and-build, EPC, and framework arrangements) and how each shifts risk and control between owner and contractor. The module closes with aligning procurement strategy to project objectives: ensuring sourcing decisions actually serve schedule, cost, and quality priorities rather than defaulting to habit or convenience.
Sourcing and Tendering
A tender that starts without market understanding often ends in disappointing bids or an award that unravels during execution. This module builds market sounding techniques — engaging the supplier market early to test appetite, capability, and realistic pricing before a tender is issued. Participants build prequalification criteria that filter for genuine capability and GCC market credibility rather than paperwork completeness alone, and design RFP/RFQ structures that give bidders clear, unambiguous instructions while protecting the owner's evaluation position. The module covers evaluation criteria design — weighting technical and commercial factors defensibly — and closes with tender control discipline: managing bidder queries, addenda, and the bid period integrity that keeps a tender process fair and legally defensible.
Contract Types and Risk Allocation
Selecting the right contract type at the procurement stage shapes the risk profile of an entire project long before execution begins. This module builds practical understanding of the major contract type families used on GCC projects — lump sum contracts that transfer quantity and productivity risk to the contractor, unit rate contracts that share quantity risk while fixing pricing, reimbursable contracts appropriate for scope uncertainty at the cost of reduced cost certainty, and framework contracts that support repeat, multi-package procurement. Participants examine the risk transfer logic behind each contract type — understanding what risk a given form genuinely shifts versus what it merely appears to shift — and build the judgment to match contract type to project scope certainty, market conditions, and organisational risk appetite.
Supplier Selection and Negotiation
This module builds the structured evaluation and negotiation skills that turn a strong tender process into a sound award decision. Participants design technical and commercial evaluation frameworks that score bids consistently against pre-defined criteria, resisting the common failure of evaluation criteria being adjusted after bids are seen. The module covers negotiation planning — preparing positions, walk-away points, and trade-off priorities before entering award negotiations with a preferred bidder rather than negotiating reactively. Participants build award recommendation documentation that gives approval authorities the evidence needed to support a funding decision, and close with award governance: the sign-off and audit trail discipline that protects a procurement decision from later challenge on GCC public and private-sector projects.
Supplier Relationship Management
Procurement does not end at contract award; how a supplier relationship is managed afterward determines whether the awarded value is actually realised. This module introduces Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) as a structured discipline, distinct from ad hoc vendor contact. Participants build vendor segmentation models that differentiate strategic, critical, and transactional suppliers, allocating relationship management effort proportionally rather than treating every supplier identically. The module covers structured performance review design — the metrics, cadence, and format that keep supplier performance visible and improvable rather than only discussed when something goes wrong. The module closes with issue escalation protocols: the structured pathway for resolving supplier performance problems before they harden into contractual disputes.
Expediting and Logistics Interface
A well-negotiated contract still fails the project if materials and equipment do not arrive when needed. This module builds practical expediting skills, starting with long-lead item identification and tracking — the equipment and materials whose procurement lead time genuinely drives the project schedule and therefore demands early, proactive management. Participants examine expediting techniques for monitoring supplier production progress and intervening before delays occur rather than after. The module covers the shipping and customs interface relevant to GCC import logistics — documentation requirements, port congestion risk, and customs clearance planning — and closes with site delivery coordination: aligning procurement delivery schedules with the project schedule interface so that materials arrive neither too early to store nor too late to install on time.
Procurement Analytics
A procurement function that cannot measure its own performance struggles to demonstrate value or identify where it needs to improve. This module builds practical procurement analytics skills, starting with spend analysis — categorising and analysing procurement spend to identify consolidation opportunities and supplier concentration risk. Participants design procurement KPIs appropriate for GCC project environments: cycle time from requisition to award, competitive tension indicators, and compliance metrics. The module covers savings tracking methodology — distinguishing genuine cost avoidance and negotiated savings from simple budget comparisons that overstate procurement's contribution. The module closes with supplier performance dashboard design: giving procurement leadership and project sponsors a clear, evidence-based view of vendor and process performance.
Capstone Procurement Plan
The programme closes with an applied capstone: participants develop a complete procurement strategy and sourcing plan for a realistic sample project package, drawing on every skill built across the previous seven modules. Working from a defined scope package with schedule, budget, and market constraints, participants complete a make/buy analysis, select an appropriate contract type and procurement route, design a tender and evaluation approach, and build a supplier management and logistics plan. Facilitator and peer feedback focuses on whether the finished plan reflects a genuinely risk-aware, commercially sound procurement strategy — not just a generic template applied without regard to the package's specific characteristics.
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Course Outcome
On completing this course, you will be able to design a project procurement strategy, run structured sourcing and tendering processes, select appropriate contract types and manage risk allocation, negotiate and govern supplier awards, manage supplier relationships and logistics, and apply procurement analytics with confidence — capabilities directly applicable to project manager, procurement manager, supply chain, and contract administrator roles across major construction and infrastructure programmes in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and the wider GCC.
