TRAINING
2011 PROCUREMENT OF CONSULTING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES
| DATES: | APR 4 - 15, 2011 | ||
| TUITION: | $3950 | ||
Overview
This course provides hands-on training in the selection procedures, contractual issues, and negotiation techniques for hiring and supervising consultants and other providers of technical services for projects funded by the World Bank and other financial institutions. The course will also address the broader topic of policy and legal issues related to the hiring of intellectual and technical services: professional liability and conflicts of interest; provisions in the UNCITRAL model law; practices advocated by FIDIC and other professional associations, and practices followed in developed countries.
Course Outline
• Overview of Procurement of Consultanting Services
• Consulting services distinguished from goods, works and technical services
• Historical development and evolved practices
• Special features in hiring consultants: cost as a selection factor, burden of professional liability, intellectual property issues, conflicts of interest
• Electronic government procurement (e-GP)
Typical Consulting Contracts
• Lump-sum, time-based, indefinite delivery, and percentage contracts
• Important contract provisions: payments, liabilities, conflicts of interest, and intellectual property matters
Hiring of Consultants in IFI-funded Projects
Harmonization of the Guidelines for the Selection of Consultants of the World Bank and Other IFIs
• Selection procedures
• Terms of reference, requests for proposal
• Choice of contract
• Evaluation of proposals
• Contract negotiations
• Supervision of consultants
Contracting Consulting Services under UNCITRAL, U.S. Government Regulations, and Other Public Agencies Including Performance Based Acquisition
Hands-on Exercise: Preparation of TORs, RFPs, Evaluation Reports
Course Advisor
Sabine Engelhard is a Lead Procurement Specialist in the Procurement, Financial Management and Portfolio Monitoring Division of the Inter-American Development Bank. Sabine was recently appointed as one of the UN Independent Experts on their Award Review and Sanctions Boards. Sabine has ample policy and strategy formulation experience, leading multidisciplinary teams, promoting innovative approaches, in countries with minimum institutional capacity or no market economy experience. She has worked in Western and Eastern Europe (including the former Soviet Union), the US, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. She has contributed to a number of papers and is a regular speaker at international procurement-related events. Sabine is a lawyer, holds the first part of a PhD in EEC Law, a Master's Degree in International Relations and a Post Graduate Certificate of Advanced European Studies.
Sample of Selected Faculty
Allan V. Burman, President Jefferson Solutions, Former Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, United States Government
Ms. Sharon L. Larkin, Senior Attorney, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Mr. Jean-Jacques Verdeaux, Procurement and Consultant Services, World Bank