Foundation

Practitioner

Expert

Reads contract and recognises obligations. Inputs into contract management plan and supports implementation of contract tools and structured plans to manage risks and stages of contract lifecycle.

Reads contract and extracts obligations. Prepares contract management plan. Establishes and adopts contract tools and structured plans to manage risks and stages of contract lifecycle.

Reviews contract and extracts obligations. Prepares contract management plan, sets requirements for and designs contract tools and structured plans to manage risks and stages of contract lifecycle.

Communicates with stakeholders to support structured transition between contract award and service delivery.

Manages structured transition between contract award and service delivery, communicating with stakeholders.

Oversees structured transition between contract award and service delivery, leading stakeholder communication.

Aware of financial controls used to manage resources, open book contract management and contract management systems.

Proposes and implements updates to contract management systems landscape. Provides insight into application of financial controls to manage resources and implications of open book contract management.

Sets direction of relevant contract management systems and oversees implementation. Manages resources through designing and ensuring adherence to financial controls, including transparency requirements.

Understands and refers to appropriate benchmarks to measure performance and savings.

Identifies and incorporates benchmarks to measure performance and savings.

Identifies requirement and develops benchmarks, ensuring adherence to measure performance and savings.

Informs procurement process through application of technical experience.

Provides technical input and applies experience to influence the procurement process.

Provides strategic input into procurement process. Uses strategic thinking to analyse and manage impact of future changes to the landscape.

Uses awareness of procurement regulations to support compliance assessment; identifies value obtained by procurement team (and potential areas of loss of value).

Applies understanding of procurement principles and regulations to assess compliance, sustainability and identify value obtained by procurement team; initiates steps to prevent loss of value.

Makes compliance and sustainability decisions based on procurement regulations; develops strategic approaches to prevent loss of value.

Understands mechanisms to ensure supplier debriefings that safeguard the Authority and support future procurement exercises.

Designs and implements mechanisms to ensure supplier debriefings that safeguard the Authority and support future procurement exercises.

Shapes requirements and approves mechanisms to ensure supplier debriefings that safeguard the Authority and support future procurement exercises.