Partnering Consultancy
APR provides advice on partnering, smart procurement and
supply chain management matters.
The advice is tailored to allow clients to perform on their
own with the minimum of help.
The following are examples of the type of partnering consultancy provided
by APR.
- Introductory workshops
- Organisation design and communication structures
- Choice of appropriate contracts and amendments to render suitable to
the specific circumstances
- Tailoring specifications to suit partnering processes
- Organisation and facilitation at partnering workshops
- Alignment exercises and training workshops
- Stakeholder workshops and processes
- Monitoring arrangements
- Advice on benchmarking and the choice of and procedure for KPIs
- Structuring continuous improvement
In some situations the advice given has been purely to effect start up of
the partnering arrangement. In others the advice has extended through the full
range of:
- Content and conduct of initial strategy meetings
- Setting up and advising core groups
- Establishing control scheduling
- Advice on the selection of the appropriate selection route and the
preparation of advertisements for insertion in the OJEC
- Advice on preparing selection questionnaires and scoring mechanisms
- Preparing stakeholder briefing data
- Organising and facilitating stakeholder workshops
- Briefing core groups on selection
- Advice on the preparation of tender documents
- Advice on the development of tender award criteria and scoring matrices
Where the advice has gone beyond the contract award stage it has included
alignment processes and design, conduct and facilitation of partnering
workshops. It has also included advice on the management of data.
On occasions it has also included controlling monitoring processes and the
production of KPIs and setting up procedures to effect continuous improvement.
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