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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

301316 (v.2) Contract and Procurement Optimisation 501

Area: Curtin Graduate School of Business
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The overall aim of this unit is to provide a professional level of understanding of contract and procurement management, procurement decision making and policy development. This is a cross-disciplinary area of academic and practitioner practice and research and focuses on the area of strategic procurement examining competitive tendering and contracting models and processes, risk management, the interface with project management, outsourcing and the associated growth of services contracting, long term contract and relationship management, the development of public- private partnerships, and a continuing overview of current and future international developments in the field. Emphasis is given to the leadership and strategic implementation functions because of the critical role that they play in procurement.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 080300 Business and Management (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Perth City Campus Trimester 1 Y        
2012 Perth City Campus Trimester 2         Y
2012 Perth City Campus Trimester 3 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External