Procurement & Contract Management

The challenge of managing ‘business as usual’ with other competing priorities such as major infrastructure development & industry benchmarking, major systems implementation and large organisational change has seen organisations turn to OCM for assistance in managing their procurement activities and improving procurement outcomes.

Procurement Cycle: Plan

Category plans with end-to-end analysis of spend; market analysis; procurement business cases; and procurement strategies including objectives and the clearly defining the benefits expected. Specialists in early market engagement strategies.

Procurement Cycle: Source

Procurement and governance advice to improve transparency, development of sourcing documents, evaluation plan development and evaluation process assistance, understanding your suppliers through financial and probity checks and negotiation strategies.

Procurement Cycle: Manage

Assist parties to understand and implement obligations under the contract; ensure benefits are realised; assess contract extension options; and develop supplier relationship and supplier diversity plans.

Project and Functional Reviews

Process, outcome and governance review of procurement projects, ensuring best practice policies and procedures, review compliance and outcomes and sustainability of procurement projects.

Contract Health Checks

Review and benchmark the performance of your contract against agreed targets, defined risks, clear role delineation, approved delegations benefit realisation and any closure or transition planning procedures.

Supplier Relationship Management and Diversity

Segment the supplier base based on risk, value and importance, design organisational relationship management frameworks, individual or category supplier relationship management plans and organisational or project-based supplier diversity plans with a strong focus on Aboriginal supply chain enhancement.

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