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A Guide to Successful Commissioning
Successfully Manage the Commissioning Process
Previously Chaired by
Gillian King
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Overview
Effective commissioning allows your organisation to procure services in a more cost-effective and functional way, improve service delivery processes and develop effective relationships with suppliers from the start.
Attend our A Guide to Successful Commissioning course to learn the principles of effective commissioning, explore best practice for outcome-based commissioning, and understand how to improve effectiveness and outcomes of public services.
Takeaway a comprehensive understanding of the commissioning process and how to make it work for your organisation.
Procurement Professional & Trainer
Gillian King is a highly experienced procurement professional and trainer, with over 20 years’ experience in global procurement and supply chain management, working for government and multinational corporations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Her sector experience is as a procurement professional, initially with the Civil Service in the UK Home Office and later as a global category leader for Zurich Financial Services, where her group annual spend was in excess of $400 M.
More recently she has provided consultancy and training to international government and ‘Blue Chip’ organisations in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, specialising in ...
Gillian King
Learning Outcomes
Develop an understanding of commissioning and the commissioning process
Recognise and meet the needs of your community through successful commissioning
Understand how commissioning can improve outcomes for your organisation
Explore best practice for outcome focused commissioning
Ensure commissioning adds to public value
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Agenda
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives
10:00 - 11:00 An Introduction to Commissioning
Understand the importance of commissioning in the public sector
Commissioning Vs. Procurement
Discover how commissioning can improve outcomes
11:00 - 11:15 Morning Break
11:15 - 12:00 Commissioning Framework
Explore the commissioning cycles and processes
Set out the principles of commissioning to make decisions based on value
Obtaining the right skill set and stakeholders
Outline the expectations for commissioner, partners, and suppliers
12:00 - 13:00 Mapping Needs and Resources
Recognise and respond to the needs of users/ the community
Ensure adding public value is at the heart of the commissioning process
Recognise the importance on clear communication in the commissioning process
Develop a process to prioritise demands
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 The Design Process
Understand the Pre-commissioning and Preliminary Phase
Explore best practice for outcome-focused commissioning
Understand how to produce a concise specification that gets the outcomes you need
Explore and select the right performance measures to monitor supplier performance
15:00 - 15:15 Afternoon Break
15:15 - 16:00 Workshop: Make Commissioning Work in Your Organisation
This session provides an opportunity to gain valuable feedback from the trainer to tailor the commissioning process to your organisation.
Ensure commissioning works for you and your organisation
Develop a strategy to get what you need from the commissioning process, from start to finish
16:00 - 16:15 Evaluation, Feedback and Close
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