Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • A message from the instructor

    • Learner Handbook

    • Policies Handbook

  • 2

    How to use the Course

    • How to use the course materials

    • How-to Lesson

    • Study Plan

  • 3

    Level 4 Crossover Topics

    • Level 4 Crossover Topics

  • 4

    L4M3 Key Models

    • SMART Targets

  • 5

    Learning Objective #1

    • LO1 - Learning Outcomes You Could Be Asked About

    • LO1 Full Slide Deck

    • 1.1.1 Invitation to tender or request for quotation

    • 1.1.2 Specifications

    • 1.1.3 Key performance indicators (KPIs)

    • 1.1.4 Contract documentation

    • 1.1.5 Pricing and other schedules (such as for health and safety records, details of supplier’s staff, use of sub-contractors, non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements)

    • 1.2.1 Invitation to negotiate, also known as invitation to treat in English law

    • 1.2.2 Principles relating to offer and acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations and capacity to contract

    • 5 Elements of a Contract

    • 1.2.3 Principles relating to the battle of the forms and precedence of contract terms

    • 1.2.4 Risks presented by contracting on supplier’s terms

    • 1.2.5 Risks presented by contracting oral contracts

    • 1.2.6 The Vienna Convention provisions for the International Sale of Goods and the impact on the formation of a contract

    • 1.2.7 Misrepresentations made at pre-contract award stages

    • 1.3.1 One-off purchases

    • 1.3.2 Framework arrangements and agreements

    • 1.3.3 The use of mini-competitions

    • 1.3.4 Call offs

    • 1.3.5 Services contracts

    • 1.3.6 Contracts for the hire and leasing of assets

    • Revision Sheets - LO1

    • Time to create your revision notes for LO1

  • 6

    Learning Objective #2

    • LO2 - Learning Outcomes You Could Be Asked About

    • LO2 Full Slide Deck

    • 2.1.1 Benefits and risks of market dialogue with suppliers

    • 2.1.2 Drafting of specifications to form a binding legal document

    • 2.2.1 Defining contractual performance measures or key performance indicators (KPIs)

    • 2.2.2 The use of service level agreements (SLAs)

    • Sample Service Level Agreement

    • 2.2.3 Typical KPI measures to assess quality performance, timeliness, cost management, resource efficiency and delivery

    • Revision Sheets - LO2

    • Time to create your revision notes for LO2

  • 7

    Learning Objective #3

    • LO3 - Learning Outcomes You Could Be Asked About

    • LO3 Full Slide Deck

    • 3.1.1 Express and implied terms: understand the role or use of different types of contract terms

    • 3.1.2 The use of standard terms of business by both purchasers and suppliers

    • 3.1.3 The use of model form contracts

    • Model Form Contracts

    • 3.2.1 Key terms in contracts for indemnities and liabilities, sub-contracting, insurances, guarantees and liquidated damages

    • Clauses Exercise

    • Clauses Exercise Answers

    • 3.2.2 Terms that apply to labour standards and environmental, social and governance issues

    • 3.3.1 The use of pricing schedules

    • 3.3.2 The use of fixed-pricing arrangements

    • 3.3.3 Cost-plus and cost-reimbursable pricing arrangements

    • 3.3.4 The use of indexation and price adjustment formulae

    • 3.3.5 The use of incentivised contracts

    • 3.3.6 Payment terms

    • Revision Sheets - LO3

    • Time to create your revision notes for LO3

  • 8

    Revision

    • Exam & Revision Techniques

    • Revision Notes

    • CIPS 20 Sample Questions

  • 9

    Live Lessons Cohort 1 9.30 - 11am

    • L4M2 LO1 15th Dec - Cohort 1

    • L4M2 LO2 & LO3 5th Jan - Cohort 1

  • 10

    Live Lessons Cohort 2 11.30am - 1pm

    • L4M2 LO1 15th Dec - Cohort 2

    • L4M2 LO2 & LO3 5th Jan - Cohort 2

  • 11

    Live Lessons Evening 5 - 6.30pm

    • L4M2 LO1 15th Dec - PM Class

    • L4M2 LO2 & LO3 5th Jan - PM Class

  • 12

    Live Revision Lesson 7th Jan 11.30am-1pm

    • L4M2 & L4M3 Live Revision Lesson 7th Jan 11.30am-1pm

  • 13

    Audio Recordings

    • FULL LO1

    • FULL LO2

    • FULL LO3

    • 1.1.1

    • 1.1.2

    • 1.1.3

    • 1.1.4

    • 1.1.5

    • 1.2.1

    • 1.2.2

    • 1.2.3

    • 1.2.4

    • 1.2.5

    • 1.2.6

    • 1.2.7

    • 1.3.1

    • 1.3.2

    • 1.3.3

    • 1.3.4

    • 1.3.5

    • 1.3.6

    • 2.1.1

    • 2.1.2

    • 2.2.1

    • 2.2.2

    • 2.2.3

    • 3.1.1

    • 3.1.2

    • 3.1.3

    • 3.2.1

    • 3.2.2

    • 3.3.1

    • 3.3.2

    • 3.3.3

    • 3.3.4

    • 3.3.5

    • 3.3.6

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  • 15

    Old Lesson Recordings

    • Lesson 1 Recording

    • Lesson 1 Audio Recording

    • Lesson 2 & 3 Recording

    • Lesson 2 & 3 Audio Recording

    • Revision Lesson Recording

    • Revision Lesson Audio Recording