PPMP20011 - Contract & Procurement Management

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Week 1 Topic:
Commercial Planning
and Commercial
Projects.
Wikipedia article
Channel Tunnel;
Peña-Mora F., and
Tamaki T. 2001.
"Effect of Delivery
Systems on
Collaborative
Negotiations for
Large -Scale
Infrastructure
Projects”;
21 Apr 2016 Channel
Tunnel's unique
status confirmed;
29 June 2016 Brexit
negotiations: Four
ways to get a good
deal;
YouTube:
The Chunnel -
1. Describe the
operation of diverse
and complex
government and non-
government project
contractual
arrangements
relevant to a range of
managed services,
ICT, and build
agreements.
The objective of this week’s topic is to make sure you have a broad
understanding of commercial planning and commercial projects.
Try to ask yourself the questions that were posed in the 1st week’s lecture :-
1. What is a Commercial Planning?
The commercial planning deals with identifying the current trends of the
projects.
2. What is a Commercial Project?
It is defined as the building of platform for the businesses.
3. What role does Commercial Planning and Commercial Project
Management have in the project, program, and a portfolio hierarchy?
They play the following role in the project, program and a portfolio hierarchy:
Centralization of tasks
 Venture arrangement and prioritization
 Constant examination to quantify and oversee tasks and assets
 Asset administration and scope quantification
 Time following
 Undertaking monetary administration
 Admission and request administration
 Incorporated Gantt outlines
 Perceivability into a wide range of work – nimble, communitarian,
iterative, venture
 Prescient portfolio investigation
 Speculation arranging and portfolio/program level money related
administration
 Vital arranging
 Roadmapping
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World's Longest
Underwater Tunnel -
History Channel.
 Program administration
 What-if situation arranging
4. Are there any essential keys for success between the participants of
large scale projects?
Yes, there essential key for success and they are:
- Staffing for the project
- Supply & Demand for the project
- Cost control
- Safety measures
- Environmental Concerns
In the Wikipedia article and the other readings for the Channel Tunnel
(Chunnel); Project try to explain:-
5. How much negotiation would have occurred during the project?
The estimate figures comes to about 2.25 billion dollars.
6. Who would the negotiation have been between?
The negotiation would have been between CTG and FM with France and
England government.
7. Would successful negotiation have mitigated any of the subsequent
outcomes?
Yes, with successful negotiation risk factors, fast tracking of the process was
mitigated. In which design overlapping risks and change management were
mitigated.
8. What would have been required to undertake successful negotiation
between the parties?
The change management process with board authority so that any type
additional costs could have been mitigated.
Then in the Peña-Mora F., and Tamaki T. paper about the Effect of Delivery
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Systems on Collaborative Negotiations for Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects,
try to explain:
9. Do cultural dimensions of the participants impact on the Collaborative
Negotiation Methodology?
Yes, it does as culture comprises of instances, unequivocal and understood, of
conduct procured and transmitted by images incorporating their encapsulation
in ancient rarities. The fundamental centre of culture comprises of conventional
(i.e. generally determined and chose) thoughts and qualities. Social frameworks
might be considered as results of activity, or as moulding further activity.
10. Does the type of Contract impact on the subsequent Negotiation?
The type of contract does impact the subsequent negotiation as these
negotiation happen continually on smaller scale and large scale scales, both in
the workplace and in regular day to day existence. As in-house advise, you are
certain to experience various kinds of arrangements as a major aspect of your
day by day undertakings, for example, pay transactions, contract transactions
with outside direction.
11. What is your overall conclusion of the paper?
The attributes of the gatherings and their relationship make conceivable to
assess quantitatively and subjectively the favourable position or disservice of
every conveyance framework as far as struggle evasion or debate
determination. At that point, files of arrangement viability for every conveyance
framework are produced keeping in mind the end goal to evaluate the upside of
executing the synergistic transaction approach in a substantial scale venture
inside a specific conveyance framework.
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activities above
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3. Differentiate
methods of project
negotiation, conflict
management, and
stakeholder
engagement across
projects consisting of
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differing technology
standards and asset
lifecycles.
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4. Explain and apply
methods of
identifying and
reconciling
inconsistent and
conflicting objectives
and drivers that
develop, maintain,
mange relationships
and communication
with key
stakeholders.
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5. Explain the
consequences of
project delays,
disruptions, and
changes to planned
activities and the
methods for claims
variations, liquidated
damages, contract
entitlements, and
arbitration.
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6. Evaluate project
management tools
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reflections for the
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that help avoid or
provide conflict
resolution via
negotiated solutions.
readings you’ve made?
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References
Kerzner H. 2013. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Control, 11th Edition. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons.
Peña-Mora F., and Tamaki T. 2001. "Effect of Delivery Systems on Collaborative Negotiations for Large -Scale Infrastructure Projects”. Journal of
Management in Engineering. Vol:April 2001 pp.105-121
PMI. 2013a. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) 5th Edition. USA: Project Management Institute.
Wikipedia 2017 Channel Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel visited __/__/____.
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