Schedule at a Glance

Change: Evolution or Revolution? 
May 7 - 9, 2013 
Ottawa Convention Centre 
Ottawa, ON

Tuesday, May 7, 2013  |  Wednesday, May 8, 2013  |  Thursday, May 9, 2013

TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast 

8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Training Sessions

Training Session 1: 
MANAGING THE UNMANAGEABLE

1 Day (English Only)

• Shawn Casemore, Founder and President, Casemore & Co. Inc.

Building a sound model for supplier qualification, management and correction.

This workshop will serve to provide an overview of the supplier qualification process, pragmatic solutions to effectively implement and sell your qualification process both internally and externally.

Learning objectives:

• • The most effective means by which to measure supplier performance
  • Means of measurement: common, uncommon and future measures
  • How to reduce the labor intensity involved in maintaining supplier metric
  • Solidifying a solution that is self-governing

Training Session 2: 
ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1 Day (English Only)

• Paul Emanuelli, General Counsel and Managing Director, The Procurement Office

Recent procurement controversies have heightened public concern over the probity of public sector spending practices. Government institutions are facing increasing pressure to address ethics and accountability within their procurement cycles. Drawing from recent news stories, auditor reports and court decisions, this introductory overview will highlight the legal and reputational risks faced by institutions when navigating the danger zones of political interference, conflict of interest, lobbying, bid rigging, and unfair advantage and bias.

This interactive full-day program covers the following topics that focus on ethics and  accountability in public procurement:

• • Preventing political interference, building barriers against conflict of interest and shielding the tendering process from improper lobbying and bid rigging
  • Dealing with unfair advantage and bias in the bidding process

Training Session 3: 
DEBRIEFING BIDDERS 

Half Day (English and French)
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French courses will be offered at the following location:

Place du Portage, Phase III, Tower A, Room 113A-B on 14th floor (14A2)

11 Laurier Street

Gatineau, QC

• (English) Richard Denault, Trainer, Professional Training and Development Division, PWGSC
• (French) Étienne Sévigny, Formateur, Division de la formation et du perfectionnement professionnel, TPSGC

This training session will look at various aspects of debriefing bidders. It will touch on activities involved in the debriefing process as well as pre- and post-activities. It will look at some of the potential areas of risk and touch lightheartedly on the psychology involved in this process.  This interactive session will include the following topics:

• • Obligations to bidders
  • Regret letter
  • In person debriefing
  • Challenge process
  • Disclosure of information

Training Session 4:
SELECTION METHODOLOGIES

Half Day (English and French)
French courses will be offered at the following location:

Place du Portage, Phase III, Tower A, Room 113A-B on 14th floor (14A2)

11 Laurier Street

Gatineau, QC

• (English) Richard Denault, Trainer, Professional Training and Development Division, PWGSC
• (French) Étienne Sévigny,Trainer, Professional Training and Development Division, PWGSC

How do you determine best value when comparing bids? This training session will aim to answer this question by looking at various best practices when it comes to weighting factors, selection methodologies, and scoring grids.  Although a variety of scoring methods exist, many contracting officers are not aware of how or when to use them.  This interactive session will include the following topics:

• • How to allocate points and weighting factors
  • Selection Methodologies
  • Highest score vs. best score
  • Lowest cost per point vs. lowest cost
  • Options with few bidders
  • Options with many bidders
  • How to avoid paying too much
  • Advantages and disadvantages

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Refreshment Break