Course overview

In four hours of you time working through this Performance Improvement e-learning course you will receive a comprehensive overview of what a contract is, what a contract should contain, what are your potential liabilities and how to ensure that your contract management and administration is efficient and effective.

This course is part of our Commercial Management training courses series which aims to help individuals gain confidence in a range of areas surrounding contract law, and broader business management knowledge.

Benefits

Distilled contract management and best practice in just 4 hours
Buy now for your team and invite them to participate at any time of your choosing
Available instantly to be taken on-line or printed off at your convenience
Model answers to confirm your understanding of the subject
Certificate of completion for your training records
Ideal for training new members of the team
Great for those requiring a quick refresher

Who should take this course

New starters to the organisation
Commercial and contract assistants and executives
Commercial and contract managers requiring a refresher

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Certificate of excellence

Participants are invited to undertake a final assessment in the form of an online multiple-choice paper. A pass rate of 80% and above is required to ensure that a high level of competency has been achieved within the subject area, where upon you will receive a ‘Certificate of Excellence’.

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The Managing Contracts and their Performance course will cover:

The contract
- Introduction
- Law
- What is a contract?
- Contract types
- Contract formation
- Types and formation of contracts – why worry?
- Early lessons
- The terms of a contract
- If things go awry
- Legal remedies
- Breach and damages – who cares?
- The Sale of Goods Act
- Product liability
- Contract negotiation
- The content of the contract
- Contract requirements
- Bringing the contract into effect
- Intentions to purchase and instructions to proceed
- Changing the contract
- Self-assessment
Contract performance 1
- Introduction
- ‘Boiler plate’ terms
- Seller and buyer obligations
- Price
- Payment
- Delivery and the passing of property and risk
- Acceptance and rejection
- Inspection
- Self-assessment
Contract performance 2
- Time schedule for performance
- Cancellation and termination
- Warranty
- Intellectual Property rights
- Liabilities and indemnities
- Bonds and guarantees
- Changes
- Self-assessment
Final assessment
Customer feedback form

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Tim Boyce

Tim Boyce has been involved in contract management for over 20 years. He began his career in the Ministry of Defence holding executive positions in contracts, contracts policy and finance. His industrial career began at Plessey in 1980 after which he enjoyed appointments with Siemens, British Aerospace and as commercial director at BAE Systems. His functional responsibilities have included contracts, commercial, procurement, estimating, legal, project accounting and the implementation of the European Business Excellence Model.

He is a former member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). His committee work included the CIPS National Contracts Management Committee, the CBI Contracts panel, the CBI Defence Procurement Panel and the CBI/MoD working groups on partnering and incentive contracting. He was the CBI observer at the HM Treasury Central Unit on the Purchasing Working Group on incentivising industry. In 1997 he was invited by the Director General of the CBI to join the CBI Public Private Partnership Forum. He has lectured widely in the UK and the US.

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