FCDO contracts in more depth
Course dates
- 12 - 14 Jul 2021
- 28 - 30 Mar 2022
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This intermediate level course will help you transform your organisation's performance when bidding for and delivering DFID contracts. If you want to increase your win:loss ratio, maximise your negotiation skills and approach to partnering or make that step from sub-contractor to prime, this course will show you how.
Commercial contracts provide new opportunities for NGOs to increase the reach and scale of their work and fulfil their strategic objectives. As DFID seek to broaden their supplier base and private sector consultancy firms face particular challenges, more and more NGOs are bidding for complex commercial contracts. However, this can come at a price, with heavy resource investments leading to unsuccessful bids or challenges during implementation.
DFID and FCO merger: No changes to procurement processes have been announced yet . Bond are closely monitoring how the merger will affect funding mechanisms and any relevant changes will be addressed during the course.
Course structure
Three half-days of live online sessions, plus individual and group work between sessions.
Who is it for?
This course is suitable for NGO staff who have attended DFID contracts essentials or have previous commercial contacting experience. It’s for those who are actively involved in selecting bids to apply for and writing the bid submission, or who have unsuccessfully bid for a contract in the past.
Unless you have previous experience, we strongly recommend that you attend DFID commercial contracting essentials before participating in this course. We offer an additional 10% discount if you book both courses. Contact us for a discount code.
What you will learn
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Assess when to pursue a tender and when your consortium is likely to lose
- Improve your submission for tender
- Maximise your organisation’s negotiating position with primes and sub-contractors
- Use agreements appropriately with primes and sub-contractors
- Manipulate your budget to meet different criteria
- Identify challenges in implementing commercial contracts and consider how your organisation might develop strategies to overcome these
- Manage relationships with primes, sub-contractors and DFID
Programme
- To bid or not to bid
- Competition analysis
- Implementation stages
- The contract
- Risks in commercial contracts
- Budgeting for the unexpected, fees and expenses
- Managing commercial contracts
- Engaging with country offices
- Working with the private sector
- Case study to apply learning
Schedule
All July 2021, and March 2022 live session times are in accordance to British Summer Time (BST). Check the live session start and end time in your timezone here (please ensure you choose the right date when checking timezones).
July 2021 live session dates
Live session 1: Monday 12th July 2021, 13.30 - 17.00 BST
Live session 2: Tuesday 13th July 2021, 13.30 - 17.00 BST
Live session 3: Wednesday 14th July 2021, 13.30 - 17.00 BST
March 2022 live session dates
Live session 1: Monday 28th March 2022, 9.30 - 13.00 BST
Live session 2: Tuesday 29th March 2022, 9.30 - 13.00 BST
Live session 3: Wednesday 30th March 2022, 9.30 - 13.00 BST
There will be approximately 4 - 6 hours' individual or group online activities outside of the live sessions, which you can complete in your own time.
Booking deadline
Bookings will close at 15:00 BST the last working day before the course to enable us to email participants the joining instructions ahead of the first live session.
Course prices
Band 1
- Non-members
- £715.00
Band 2
- Bond members >£2M annual spend
- £550.00
Band 3
- Bond members <£2M annual spend
- £275.00
*10% discount if you book 8 weeks in advance.
Course prices
Band 1
- Non-members
- £715.00
Band 2
- Bond members >£2M annual spend
- £550.00
Band 3
- Bond members <£2M annual spend
- £275.00
* 10% off if you book 8 weeks in advance; 5% off 3 or more bookings.
Contact us for special discounts if you're a student or unemployed.
10%
off if you book early*
5%
off multiple bookings*
Event dates
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Monday, July 12, 2021 to Wednesday, July 14, 2021
18 places available
Monday, March 28, 2022 to Wednesday, March 30, 2022
17 places available