🎯 Course Description:
This 5‑day course delves into ethical, legal, and compliance dimensions in tendering and contracting. It teaches how to build transparent, fair, and compliant tendering processes and contracts, manage conflicts of interest, prevent corruption and fraud, ensure procurement integrity, and align with national and international standards (e.g. OECD, UNCITRAL). Through case studies of misconduct, and simulation of ethical dilemmas, participants will learn to embed compliance into every stage of tendering and contracts.
👥 Who Should Attend:
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Procurement & contract compliance officers
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Internal audit, legal departments
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Government officials overseeing public procurement
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Managers responsible for risk, ethics, and governance
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Professionals in NGOs or international agencies
🗓️ Day 1: Foundations of Ethics in Tendering
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome, Overview, Introductions |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Principles & Standards: Fairness, Transparency, Equality |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Legal Frameworks: Anti‑corruption Laws, Bribery, Fraud |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Conflict of Interest – Identifying and Managing |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Workshop: Ethical risk identification in a tender |
🗓️ Day 2: Designing Compliant Tender Processes
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Tender Rules & Procedures: Transparency, Documentation, Audit Trail |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Fairness in Bid Evaluation & Selection Criteria |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Handling Complaints & Bid Challenges |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Case Study: Public procurement scandal and preventive lessons |
🗓️ Day 3: Compliance in Contractual Clauses
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Incorporating Compliance Clauses – Integrity, anti‑fraud |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Audit, Reporting & Monitoring Clauses |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Ensuring Sub‑contractor / Supplier Compliance |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Workshop: Drafting ethical & compliance clauses for a major tender |
🗓️ Day 4: Investigating, Auditing & Remediation
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Detecting Fraud & Misconduct in Tendering |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Risk‑Based Auditing of Contracts |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Remediation & Enforcement: Penalties, Terminations, Banlists |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Case Simulation: Handling a bid protest and investigation |
🗓️ Day 5: Best Practices, Culture & Sustainability
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Embedding Ethical Culture in Procurement & Contracting |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Sustainable Procurement & ESG Considerations within Contract Clauses |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 15:00 | Group Exercise: Designing an ethics‑based tender & contract framework |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:15 – 16:30 | Final Q&A, Feedback, Certificates |
📂 Course Materials Provided:
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Sample ethics & compliance clause templates
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Guidelines from international standards (UNCITRAL, OECD etc.)
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Case studies of procurement failures & remedial actions
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Audit checklist for contract compliance
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Role‑play scripts for ethical dilemmas
