Strategic Procurement & Contract Management
Public and corporate procurement, supplier negotiation, contract law, and value-for-money assurance.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The strategic procurement contract was signed on assumptions that lasted exactly one season; every variation since has been negotiated from weakness. Operations that cannot see their constraints work harder at the wrong things — effort without throughput is the most expensive habit in the portfolio. You will practise the hard calls — delay, money or scope — with faculty who have made them for real, and learn the judgement before it gets expensive.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Govern strategic procurement programmes so they deliver on time, cost and purpose.
- Design strategic procurement delivery governance — gates, controls and escalation — that catches problems early.
- Design strategic procurement contracts and risk allocation that hold under stress.
- Prove strategic procurement benefits after commissioning, not just milestones before it.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
Sixty Claims and an Election Year
A national modernisation at a national roads agency is 40% over budget and 18 months late. The contractor has filed sixty claims; the board must choose between completion, termination for default, or a negotiated reset — before an election year.
Your decision: Choose the path, the commercial posture and the message to government and lenders.
IPAT Data Lab™
A programme portfolio at a national roads agency cannot see which projects are quietly failing.
Dataset: Synthetic cost, schedule and quality data for a 25-project portfolio at a national roads agency.
Your task: Diagnose the overrun drivers, separate noise from signal, and design recovery for the worst three.
A project performance dashboard and intervention plan.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the delivery blueprint for your organisation's most important programme: governance, controls, commercial strategy and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • Stage-gate delivery governance
- • Earned value management
- • Lean and Six Sigma foundations
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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