Course description
In partnership with King's College London
Public Procurement Regulation is undergoing rapid change in the face of the demands presented by Climate Change, Covid and ever greater social and political expectations. This programme with King’s has been designed and adapted to address these changes and support law professionals in acquiring and developing their knowledge and understanding of Procurement Law in the wider international context. Students will acquire a sound working knowledge of EU procurement law as a core, essential model for procurement law but will look at a range of other international models and trade instruments so as to understand the context that they work within.
Candidates who achieve Merit or above are able to gain entry to the King’s Masters course which leads to an MA after preparation of a significant dissertation on a relevant procurement law topic.
King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules and their content offered may change.
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Training Course Content
This programme has been specifically designed for professionals wishing to expand their knowledge and understanding of EU procurement law and regulation, while also placing that system within its wider international context.
Benefit from a highly relevant programme that:
- Details the purpose and effects of procurement regulation in achieving integrity, efficiency and better integrated markets
- Gives a detailed working knowledge of the EU system of procurement regulation in the public, utility and defence sectors
- Provides insights into modern procurement methods such as those made possible by electronic procurement and cross-border cooperation
- Develops your understanding of the expanding scope of policies being driven by procurement such as development of innovation, sustainability requirements and the need to meet the challenges set by new social policy requirements
- Outlines the wider transnational procurement systems applied by Development Banks and the promotion of further procurement goals through trade agreements and other international measures.
Core Modules
Module 1 - Scope of the EU Procurement Law Regimes
- Unit 1: Introduction
- Unit 2: The Scope of Application of Procurement Law
- Unit 3: Tender Evaluation
- Unit 4: Tenderer Selection and Exclusion
- Unit 5: The Key Underlying EU Law: General principles, Competition and State Aid
Module 2 - Introduction to EU Procurement Law and the Processes, Principles and Policies underpinning EU Procurement Law
- Unit 6: Public Procurement and the Wider Social and Sustainability Agenda
- Unit 7: The Flexibilities of the System: Procuring Complex Projects or in the Face of Complex Requirements
- Unit 8: Central Purchasing Bodies and Other Purchasing Systems, Different Models of Framework, Agreements and Issues with Electronic Procurement
- Unit 9: The Role of Procurement Law in the Performance Phase
- Unit 10: Utilities Sectors and Concessions, The Particularities of Defence Procurement from Three Perspectives
Module 3 - EU Procurement Law in Context: Flexible Processes, Performance Challenges and Different Procurement Techniques & EU Procurement Law in its Wider International Context
- Unit 11: Remedies and Challenges for Breach of Procurement Obligations: EU and National Remedies
- Unit 12: Procurement Law in the Wider World: the GPA Model underpinning Global Procurement, the UNCITRAL Model Law and Requirements imposed by Multilateral Development Banks
Course delivery details
- The distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in the Public Procurement Programme is structured into three modules of twelve units.
- Each unit comes in the form of hard copy print and as a PDF file via the Programme website.
- Questions will be set at the end of each unit and model answers to these will be sent with the unit that follows.
- Units are normally sent by post and overseas students will be sent their material by air courier. Students are expected to engage with the online platform during their studies.
- All students will be eligible to attend two optional weekend seminars at King’s College London.
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