EMCS Academy has designed this course to assist participants in gaining a solid foundation in European and Maltese Public Procurement Rules, Policy and Practice.
Individuals following this course will be provided with up-to-date knowledge, skills and proficiencies dealing with public procurement practices.
The overall objective of this training programme is to enhance awareness and knowledge in dealing with public procurement rules and principles, as per below:
At the end of the course, the learner will be able to:
This module will incorporate the following elements and key sub-topics:
EU Public Procurement Legal Framework
• The EU Treaty and EU Public Procurement Directives
• The principles and values of EU Public Procurement (including quality of treatment, transparency, mutual recognition and proportionality)
• Applicability
• Processes, type of tenders and thresholds
• The impact of Brexit on public procurement
• Landmark and recent case law
National Public Procurement Legal Framework
• The transposition of the EU legal framework into National Law, including the main Subsidiary Legislation as well as the applicable Legal Notices
• The roles and responsibility of the different stakeholders involved under different contracting schedules
• Remedies for Public Procurement Contracts and enforcement at National level
• The applicability of these parameters to Voluntary Organisations implementing EU / Nationally funded projects
Tendering Processes
• The different types of tenders
• The different tendering procedures and stages
Preparing a Tender Dossier
• Tender templates
• The preparatory and planning work including the drafting of the Instructions to tenderers (ITT), technical specifications, selection and award criteria and financial bid/bills of quantities, tender estimates, special conditions and bid bonds
• Tender forms
• ePPS uploading
• Publication (including the requirements to publish on the Official Journal and how to go about it)
This module will incorporate the following elements and key sub-topics.
Tender Evaluation
• The setting up of the tender evaluation committee
• The role of the members of the committee
• Proceedings of the meetings, reporting and minutes
• Evaluating bids for administration/technical/financial compliance
• Evaluation of cheapest technically compliant offers vs best quality price ratio approach
• Communication to awarded and non-awarded bidders
• Publication of results
• Appeals period
Post Contract Award
• Contract management and meeting contractual obligations
• Different contract for services/works/goods
• Invoicing and payments
• Managing variations
• Reporting
• Ex-ante and ex-post controls
• Audit requirements
• Roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders involved
• Dispute Adjudication
Irregularities and financial corrections
• Errors, irregularities and fraud
• Common issues and recent statistics
• Preventing and detecting irregularities
• Correction practices
• Reporting
Contract Closure
– the requirements to close off a contract covering performing and non-performing contracts.
A mix of learning methodologies will be used to ensure that that participants are engaged in the learning process throughout the training programme. Various training methods will be adopted throughout the training sessions.
A summative assessment procedure will be used and this will be applied at the end of each module when the students would have covered all the material covering all learning outcomes.
At the end of each module, participants will be asked to work on a multiple-choice test, whilst at the end of the course participants will be asked to work on a Case study focusing on the preparation of the Tender Dossier using the appropriate templates provided.
These exercises will assess what the trainees have learned and its application, as a result of the information provided during the training programme.
This course is made up of a total of 50 hours. These are divided into:
22 contact hours, 6 self-study hours, 4 supervised practice hours and 18 assessment hours
This course is made up of 2 Modules.
The course will be delivered in English.
The sessions are all in-person sessions to be held at the below Training Venue
EMCS Academy
Centris Business Gateway II, Level 4,
Triq is-Salib tal-Imriehel Zone 3,
Central Business District,
Birkirkara
2 A Levels or equivalent qualifications or minimum of 2 years working within a public procurement environment.
Good working knowledge of the English language.
Basic level of digital competence.
Total Learning Hours
Full course: 50 hours
Module 1: 25 hours
Module 2: 25 hours
Hours include contact hours, supervised practice hours, self-study hours and assesment hours.
