SAB7#142 Plan Procurement Management

1. Planning

1. The Four Sequential Process
   1. 1. Plan Procurement Management
   2. 2. Conduct Procurements
   3. 3. Control Procurements
   4. 4. Close Procurements

1. It includes the processes required to buy or acquire products, services or results that must be obtained from outside the project team

1. • Performing make or buy analysis
2. • Creating a procurement management plan
3. • Creating a procurement statement of work for each procurement
4. Selecting a contract type for each procurement
5. • Creating the procurement documents
6. • Determining the source selection criteria

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• The scope baseline, wich is part of the Project management plan, helps those involved in the procurement process understand the scope of the Project, identify where procurements are necessary, and understand any constraints on potentail procurement efforts.    

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• This where you’ll find the scope related requirements that are likely to guide the en product, service, or result provided by a seller. In addition this documentation also includes requirements  for compliance, safety, communicatios, Project management practices, reporting, quality, and risk management that are likely to be important to the procurement processes.     

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• The activity resource requirements will provide information on the required skills, number, and type of resources that will needed in the procurements processes. Its also necessary to identify where resources are not available within the performing organization, to help determine what services (if any) need to be procured    

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• These factors are Company culture and existing systems your  Project will have to deal  with or can use. For procurement, this includes markplace conditions, the services that are available to be purchased, and the existing culture and structures surrounding    

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• The organizational process assets that are used in procurement can include precurement procedures and documents, standard contracts, statement of work templates, lessons learned from past procurements and projects, and list of prequalified sellers.     

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• Provides an understanding of risks uncovered to date, as well as the risk responses that require procurements. Remember, risk analysis of teh Project should be done before contracts are signed.     

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• Will help identify those who will be impacted by the procurement process as well as those who will have input into or will guide this process.    

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• The Project manager must manage the interface between multiple sellers and multiple procurements on one Project.     

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• Will help determine when the procurements are needed, and will also provide Schedule constraints, required completion dates, adn time estimates    

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• An internal cost estimate for each procurement should be created before the procurement process starts to be used for comparison with seller’s prices