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Professionalisation and
Certification in Public
Procurement in Austria
Hubert Reisner
Workshop on Public Procurement
Belgrade, 27 March 2009
Belgrade, 27 March 2009
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Administrative Structure and
Public Procurement
• independent entities
•central state
•9 federal states
•communities
•other independent entities
• no central competence for organisation
• legislation and coordination Federal
Chancellery
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Trainings
• responsibility of each entity
• trainings and certifications organised by
• ministries: administrative academy
• federal states: own administrative academies
• communities: organisations of communities
• Federal and Regional Economic Chambers
• Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers
• Universities only as part of economic law
• private companies
• special trainings for employees of companies
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Public Procurement
• Procurement is interdisciplinary
•business management
•economics
•engineering
•law
•…
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Starting Point for the Initiative of
the Federal Economic Chamber
• Lack of
• long-term procurement strategies
• modern project management
• sufficient contract management in the public sector
• Need for a modular training system
• 2-hour-training for suppliers
• weekend trainings for contracting authorities and
suppliers
• MBA and LL.M. programmes
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Long-Term Procurement
Strategies
Planning
Public
Procurement
Procedures
Conclusion
of Contract
Contract
Management
public procurement needs strategic planning
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Training for Public Procurement organised by
the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO)
• WKO
• contracting authority
• representation of the business community (suppliers
and parts of the utilities: Austrian Railways, airports,
gas companies,…)
• training institution WIFI
• WKO trains contracting authorities and suppliers
• well trained procurement specialists
• purchase quality services for the general public
• reduce unnecessary (transaction) costs and
• get innovation into public purchasing
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Modular Training Programmes
• basic 2-hour/2-day trainings for suppliers in
the WKO training centres (9 WIFIs in the
Austrian provinces)
• modular weekend trainings for suppliers and
contracting authorities:
legislative changes, best practices, model
procurement documents in some WIFIs (Vienna,
Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Lienz, …)
• post-graduate diploma programmes, MBA and
LL.M. in procurement (3-4 semesters) in WIFI
Vienna + Linz
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Diploma Programme (2 Sem)
Procurement Manager
Economics 10%
Law 40%
Business
Management 50%
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Diploma Programme (2 Sem)
Procurement Manager
• cooperation: WKO/WIFI + Universities
• since September 2005 for contracting
authorities, suppliers + consultants
(~ 20 students)
• programmes for (university) graduates
and/or procurement practitioners
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Post-graduate Programmes in
(Public) Procurement
MBA
(+ 2 Sem)
LL.M.
(+ 1 Sem)
Diploma Programme
(2 Sem)
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Curriculum: Economics of
Purchasing
• markets and competition
• social and environmental concerns in
public procurement, Innovation, SMEs, …
• price: price elasticity, pricing
agreements, price adjustment formulae,
indices
• PPPs & PFIs
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Curriculum: Business
Management
• strategy formulation, implementation and
control
• project and process management, quality
management
• cost accounting, calculation, controlling
• e-business, e-sourcing, e-commerce and eprocurement
• logistics, global sourcing, purchasing and supply
chain management
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Curriculum: Law
• private law: contract law, company law,
ipr, competition law
• public law: constitutional law,
administrative law, industrial law,
construction codes, zoning regulations, …
• procurement law and remedies (eu,
national, gpa, …)
• model tender documents, case studies
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Thank you
for your attention
Hubert Reisner
Federal Public Procurement Office
Praterstraße 31
A-1020 Wien, Austria
Tel +43 – 1 - 21377 –224
Fax +43 – 1 – 7182393
[email protected]
www.bva.gv.at
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