Project Management: Royal Adelaide Hospital Journal Reflection

This journal reflection analyzes a project management case study of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, a major social infrastructure project. The student reflects on modules covering financial aspects of procurement, including cost management, risk mitigation, and contract efficiency. The reflection also covers procurement documentation, contract negotiation, and constraints within healthcare organizations. Further modules delve into vendor and contracting management, emphasizing performance-based approaches and contract administration. The final modules address relationship management with staff, suppliers, and project closure documentation, including ethical considerations and emerging trends in contract management. The reflection highlights key learnings from each module, focusing on practical applications within the hospital context, and references relevant academic sources.

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Part 5: JOURNAL REFLECTTION
The case study that I have learnt from these module is the case study of Royal Adelaide,
which is one of the biggest hospital in social infrastructure that the state has taken up. The main
aim of this hospital is to change their status basically from large scale private partnership to
modern provider with the health care facilities. The procurement services that are to be needed
for this is difficult to manage. The following part shows the procurement measures that I have
learnt form module 3, 4, 5, and module 6.
From module 3, I have learnt about the financial aspects of the Royal Adelaide hospital.
The procurement about dealing with the financial services includes managers who procures the
materials, services and the equipment that are involved in developing the services of the hospital.
From this module, I have learnt the total procurement cost of implementing the products as well
as services in the Royal Adelaide hospital1. I have learnt about the financial aspects of the
contractors who are involved with the risks of the organization. I have also learnt about exploring
the risks and mitigating the risks. The opportunities that are involved with improving the
Contract management of the company are learnt from this module. From this module I have
learnt about how to make the procurement process more efficient by decreasing the cost of
products and services. The contract management is also learnt from this module regarding the
Royal Adelaide hospital.
From module 4, I have come to know about the procurement documentation, contract
negotiations, as well as procurement constraints of the Royal Adelaide hospital. In the health
1 Ops, Financial, Budget Chief Budget Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, General Accounting, Accounts Payable,
Chief Financial Officer, Administrative Director, and Financial Reporting. "Superintendent of Schools." (2018).

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care organization of Royal Adelaide, the manger will need to purchase the clinical equipment
needed in the organization, medicines as well as the services that the organizations can provide
the best to their patients2. I have come to know that the documents that consists of these dealing
between the suppliers and the procurement manager is known as procurement document. The
documents are necessary for the stages of execution in the organization. I have also learnt about
contract negotiation and the main factors that are included in the organization3. The procurement
documents and the procurement contracts are to be standardized according to the standard
procurement documentation. From this module I have come to know about the procurement
services of the Royal Adelaide hospital and how to make a standard procurement document for
the heath care center.
From the module 5, I have come to know about the vendor and contracting management
of the Royal Adelaide hospital. The contracting as well as the vendor management is a
performance based procurement management process4. I have learnt that projects that needs a
significant effort by project manager. This is because to ensure to meet the requirements as well
as the constraints that are involved while making the contract. The performance based approach
of contracting that I have learnt from this module was previously pioneered in US defense
2 Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Creating shared value." In Managing Sustainable Business, pp. 327-350.
Springer, Dordrecht, 2019.
3 Jasko, O., Jovanovic, P. and Cudanov, M., 2015. Cost Efficiency of Public Procurement at Local Level: Chances
for Improvement of Local Self-government and Public Enterprises in Serbia. Lex Localis, 13(3), p.789.
4 Usman, Mohammad, Tariq Rahim Soomro, and Muhammad Nawaz Brohi. "Embedding project management into
XP, SCRUM and RUP." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 10, no. 15 (2014).

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industry. This contracting approach is becoming famous now a days all over the world. I have
come to know about contracting that is performance based and the terms as well as conditions
that are used to drive the performance of the Royal Adelaide hospital5. I have also learnt about
the contract administration and the contract management that helps to deliver the outcomes of the
project. Examining the role of contractor is also learnt by me in this module that deals with
different constraints of the project.
In module 6, I have learnt about how to manage relationships in between the staffs and
employees of the company and about the closing of the project. The manager that is related with
the Royal Adelaide hospital is often asked a question about the completion pf the project. The
society is becoming interconnected with each other all over the world. This helps in more
communication with the outside world. I have personally learnt about how to establish
relationship in between the employees, customers as well as manager in the health care of Royal
Adelaide. There should also be a supplier relationship between the manager and the supplier. I
have learnt about the project closure documentation and the emerging issues, contract
management and the trend is also learnt in this module6. I have also learnt about managing the
relationship with the suppliers as well as the vendors that are included in the boundary of ethics
and the relationship should be transparent.
5 Jurčík, Radek. "Evaluation of Public Tender According to the New Procurement Directives." Theoretical and
Practical Aspects of Public Finance 2015 (2015): 100.
6 Nicoletti, Bernardo. "Partnerships in Agile Procurement." In Agile Procurement, pp. 105-140. Palgrave
Macmillan, Cham, 2018.

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References
Jasko, O., Jovanovic, P. and Cudanov, M., 2015. Cost Efficiency of Public Procurement at Local
Level: Chances for Improvement of Local Self-government and Public Enterprises in Serbia. Lex
Localis, 13(3), p.789.
Jurčík, Radek. "Evaluation of Public Tender According to the New Procurement
Directives." Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Public Finance 2015 (2015): 100.
Nicoletti, Bernardo. "Partnerships in Agile Procurement." In Agile Procurement, pp. 105-140.
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018.
Ops, Financial, Budget Chief Budget Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, General Accounting,
Accounts Payable, Chief Financial Officer, Administrative Director, and Financial Reporting.
"Superintendent of Schools." (2018).
Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Creating shared value." In Managing Sustainable
Business, pp. 327-350. Springer, Dordrecht, 2019.
Usman, Mohammad, Tariq Rahim Soomro, and Muhammad Nawaz Brohi. "Embedding project
management into XP, SCRUM and RUP." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 10, no. 15 (2014).