Where an organisational internal customer / user deliberately circumvents the procurement function, and buys from an external supplier without following due procedure. This is commonly called:
‘All procurement requirements valued at more than $100,000 must be competitively tendered, and any contracts arising therefrom must be signed by the Procurement Director’. This is an example of a:
One of the appendices to a formal contract should be a 'pricing schedule'. This is because price is the most important item of a contract and it is a requirement for it to be detailed in a pricing schedule. Is this a correct statement?
CIPS believes that it is good practice for different staff members to be responsible for three key ac-tivities in procurement (specifying / requisitioning; sourcing / contracting; authorising payment), in order to reduce the likelihood of malpractice, and to do what is in the best interests of the organisa-tion. Select two of the following terms which this principle is known by.
Esther Francis has recently changed jobs from a supply role at Shine Cleaning Services (SCS) to a purchasing role at Southern Commercial Property (SCP). Esther requires industry technical input to develop a cleaning services requirements specification for her new employer. Esther Francis wants to include her former employer SCS in a market engagement exercise to inform the specification. Which of the following would be the most appropriate way to deal with the conflict of interest?
A xxxx team is a group of individuals brought together into a single team from different areas of the organisation.
Select one which best replaces xxxx.
Workers are naturally lazy. They lack ambition. They must be controlled.
A local hospital has had to use a number of substitute cardiac pacemaker devices, due to poor delivery performance from its regular contracted cardiac equipment supplier. Which key performance indicators would be suitable to monitor the performance of the supplier in this area to help prevent the issue from reoccurring? Select TWO that apply.
A performance specification has several features that make it different from a conformance specification. Which of the following are features of a performance specification? Select TWO that apply.
Fear of the unknown, peer pressure, organisational politics are examples of reasons why people might:
