5 Top Tips for Ensuring Purchasing Procedural Fairness: Breakfast Session

This is a by invitation only session.

With the ever-expanding web of new trade agreement and tribunal requirements for fairness and transparency, today's procurement professional must be able to successfully navigate the murky edges of fairness while still ensuring best value from organizational processes. Drawing on recent CITT rulings, court cases and judicial review findings, this inter-active session explores the high risk areas, along with strategies to ensure that your organization stays within the boundaries of fairness. As procurement professionals know, it is always better to read a case than be a case!

Learning Objectives

Review recent relevant cases and tribunal rulings related to procedural fairness

Examine common process pitfalls

Explore tips for ensuring defensible results

Speaker Bio

Maureen Sullivan is owner and President of National Education Consulting Inc. (NECI), and specializes in helping organizations maximize the value they receive from their procurement and contracting activities. She is a lawyer by training, has obtained her Certified Training Practitioner designation through ATD, and has authored over 40 classroom and online courses. Maureen also manages the curriculum development and instructor training for the Public Sector Procurement Program (PSPP) that has been accredited by the Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council. An experienced litigator, mediator and dispute resolution practitioner, Maureen is renowned for her engaging teaching style and ability to integrate legal concepts with business practices, making often difficult concepts accessible and understandable for learners at all levels.

Registration & Full Breakfast: 8:00 am

Session starts: 9:00 am

Wrap up, questions & answers: 11:30 am