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Developing Specifications

Course Cost £350 +VAT
Duration 1 DAY
  • Course focuses on specifying goods and services to minimize risk and maximize competition.
  • Identify best practices in specifying goods and services.
  • Learn to produce commercial specifications effectively.
  • Understand the legal framework for specifications.
  • Suitable for those involved in producing or assessing specifications.

Overview

This one-day course focuses on best practices for specifying goods and services to minimize risk and maximize competition. Participants will learn about the different types of specifications, the use of standards, and the legal framework surrounding specifications. The course aims to equip delegates with the skills to produce effective commercial specifications. Suitable for individuals involved in creating or evaluating specifications for third-party suppliers.

Who should attend

Delegates involved in production or assessment of specifications.

Course Content

Course duration: 1 Day

Course running order

What is a specification?
· Form
· Purpose
· Aim

The differing nature of specifications
· Performance and conformance explained
· When should we use each type?
· Selecting the form in order to allocate commercial risk cost effectively
· Using specifications to maximise competition and innovation

The use of standards
· Why use standards? – Understanding the need for standards
· Advantages and disadvantages of the use of standards in specifications

Specification as a business process
· The role of
· The user
· Quality Assurance
· Commercial teams

General principles in developing specifications
· Structure of a specification document
· Configuration control and authorisation

Specifying on a total life cost basis
· Specifying services
· Defining Key Performance Indicators for service based contracts
· Managing KPI’s in service contracts
· Additional Factors to consider

The legal framework
· Definitions of fitness for purpose and satisfactory quality
· Implied rights as to compliance to specification

Course Objective

To identify best practice in the specifying of goods and services and provide delegates with the skills, to produce good commercial specifications, which minimise risk and maximise competition.

Who should attend?

Delegates who are involved in the production or assessment of specifications for use with third party suppliers

Duration / Fees

A 1-day single manned course.

Can be run over a two or three week cycle – simply ask when booking

Who Should Attend

Delegates involved in production or assessment of specifications.
Course Cost £350 +VAT
Duration 1 DAY

Experts in Construction and Infrastructure Training

1000+

Training courses available

250000+

Course hours completed

50+

Expert trainers

CITB, APS, IEMA

Accreditation training centres

12

Accreditations

Testimonials

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The course was exceptional, well run in terms of delivery of information, IT online course but seamless. Very interesting examples of temporary works failures applicable to the businesses we worked in. Break out activities / group examples worked very well and were again well managed by the trainer. Fantastic course, I will recommend to others! Best course I have attended in years!

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Black & Veatch

The trainers knowledge was excellent and I liked his examples and how he could relate them to every day relatable examples that we could all understand. Coming from different industries and sectors his examples were a common ground. It was handled very well virtually and the engagement worked with his questioning and answering

Contract Management

The Pension Regulator

The training was very interactive and the tutor was excellent in engaging every course attendee and ensuring that the course content was tailored to each attendees Organisation and Company requirements

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Kone – H &S Advisor

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