A tender process only works if every bidder is playing by the same legal rules, which is why procurement and bidding sit at the centre of how any economy actually functions. This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy gives legal professionals advanced experience in the legal rules and regulations governing tenders, auctions and bidding procedures.

As business, official legal authorities and organizational structures have evolved, and as the volume of transactions keeps growing, the need to regulate procurement and bidding has become urgent, so that neither employer nor contractor breaches agreed terms. A wide range of legislation now governs the contractual and bidding rights and duties of both sides. Contracting agreements typically pass through a pilot phase, used to verify a contractor's capabilities and the integrity of the work environment, followed by a confirmation phase.

What You Will Master

• A full, practice-ready command of the branches of law relevant to procurement and tendering.
• Skills in drafting and preparing contracts, and delivering sound legal opinions on referred matters.
• The characteristics, types and classifications of laws and legislation, and who each one applies to.
• Studying different categories of cases and legal memoranda relevant to tenders and procurement.
• Drafting legal memos, statements, and administrative resolutions.
• An advanced level of contract writing and conclusion, including the legal notes and full documentation that go with it.

Target Audience

• Company and enterprise managers and directors.
• Heads of legal departments and legal affairs in commercial firms.
• Law officers and legal affairs employees.
• Businessmen wanting to strengthen their legal skills.
• Law students, graduates, and trainee lawyers.

Module 1: Legal Groundwork for Procurement Work

• The concepts of legal management, legal provisions (definition, interpretation, importance), and the origins of legal interpretation.
• An extensive grounding in the legal sciences that support tender and procurement work.

Module 2: Specifications, Tenders and Contract Language

• Writing and analysing contract specifications and procurement processes, and their legal link to the "invitation to tender".
• Spotting doubtful or deficient specifications, understanding the risks tied to different specification types, and how language choices shape contractual articles and legal conditions.

Module 3: From Legal Advice to Signed Contract

• Applications and examples in writing legal memoranda, and skills and methods of legal drafting for lawsuits.
• Stages and mechanisms for preparing legal advice, and contract preparation and conclusion skills.
• Negotiation, dispute-resolution and persuasion skills, and formulating documents, memos, statements and legal memoranda of various types.