Case Study

Your organization strongly supports the goals of the United Nations' PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education). The organization has begun its first PRME project, a high priority and highly visible initiative. You have been named project manager.

The project will identify and establish ongoing relationships with corporate partners worldwide. The partnerships will promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound educational technologies to developing countries on favorable terms, including concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed. Educational technology for this project will be a content delivery platform for elementary and secondary school organizations. D2L (eConestoga) is an example of this technology.

It is expected that several partners will be required to fulfill all the needs of the school organizations. Preference will be given to partners in developing nations, partners with visible minorities and women as the majority shareholders.

Partners should be ready to work with school organizations on January 1, 2024.

Partners may have one or more of the following responsibilities.

• Develop and build educational technologies.
• Customize technology to fit the needs of the school organization.
• Install the technology in the school system.
• Train teachers in how to use the technology in their first language.
• Create training materials for students.
• Deliver periodic upgrades to the technology as well as ongoing user support.

Instructions 1. Make a procurement plan for the project described in the case study below.

2. Must make procurement plan based on the course materials. Do not use a template from an external source.

3. make a professional looking document that includes a title page, table of contents, and bibliography. APA standards must be followed.

Content in word file length: minimum two pages maximum six to seven pages excluding title page, table of contents and bibliography pages.

Defining the need for the project . Development of the procurement statement of work, specifications, and work breakdown structure Preparing a WBS dictionary, if necessary Performing a make or buy analysis Laying out the major milestones and the timing/schedule Determining if long lead procurement is necessary Cost estimating, including life-cycle costing Determining whether qualified sellers exist Identifying the source selection criteria Preparing a listing of possible project/procurement risks (i.e., a risk register) Developing a procurement plan . Obtaining authorization and approval to proceedProcurement Plans often contain the following: - items to be procured (make or buy decisions, etc.) - Use of standard (corporate) or specialized (project) procurement processes o Role(s) of the project team . Role(s) of other support areas within the corporation/organization (Legal, Finance, etc.) 0 identify products to make rather than outsource - Identify qualied suppliers; pro-qualication of suppliers . Open bidding or bidding from a preferred supplier list . Type of contract to use for each seller and associated risks 0 Criteria to evaluate proposals - Relevant dates for purchasing