1 Day Legal and Practical Aspects of Tender Process Management 
Introduction It is critical for both project owner and bidders to be aware of the legalities and practical issues regarding the tendering process. Stakeholders should plan for risk management should the unforeseen circumstances occur. This seminar course will highlight - the essentials of making a contract
- the legal status of invitation to tender
- the legal issues in the tender process
- the process contracting and documentations
- the legal obligations of owner and bidders
- the drafting of specifications in Request for Tender
- the principles of evaluation of tenders
Course Outline LEGAL ASPECTS Formation of a Contract - Offer & Acceptance
- Consideration
- Intention to Create Legal Relations
The legal status of a Request for Tender - "Invitation" to Treat or "Offer"
- The concept of a process contract
What is the legal obligation towards bidders? - Rejecting non-compliant bids & accepting only compliant bids
- Issue of using undisclosed criteria in evaluating bids
- Duty to act fairly
Other legal issues in the tender process - Negligence
- Estoppel
- Anti-Competitive practices
PRACTICAL ASPECTS Pre-Tender Assessments - The scope of the contract
- Type and Quality of Goods and Services required
- Mode of delivery of services
- Factors affecting the contract – time, cost, complexity
The Request For Tender (RFT) - Key contents of RFT
- Clarity in drafting of the specifications in the RFTv
- Identifying relevant Selection criteria for the project
Evaluation and Selection of Tenders - Key principles in the Evaluation of Tenders
- How to evaluate Non-Price Criteria
- Clarifying tender submissions that may be unclear
- Weighting of criteria and scoring
Who Should Attend Executives, managers, contractors, architects, engineers, finance and company directors and business persons who need to understand the legalities in tender process management, tender/project owners, and companies who are considering to participate in tenders. 360 Degrees Trainer Profile  Associate Professor Catherine Tay Swee Kian
Assoc Prof. Catherine Tay lectures law at National University of Singapore, NUS Business School in the Department of Strategy and Policy; and medical law and business law at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS; as well as dental law and ethics at the Faculty of Dentistry, NUS. A/Prof Tay is an Associate Professorial Fellow, NUS. She is a Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom and an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore. She was called to the English Bar in 1978 and the Singapore Bar in 1980. She is an Associate Director, Bernard & Rada Law Corp.
She is an author of several law books including 'Contract Law'; 'Directors' Duties and Liabilities'; 'Business Law' ; E-Commerce Law; Intellectual Property Laws and 'Medical Negligence'. She has published several legal articles in prestigious international and local law journals. A/Prof Tay studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree and a Master of Laws degree, in which she specialized in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance laws. She did her pupillage under the Honorable Lady Mary Hogg in London and returned to Singapore in the law firm of Rodyk & Davidson. A/Prof Tay is also a member of the Centralized Institutional Review Board – Ethics sub committee of SingHealth hospitals and polyclinics; and is also a member of the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board / Research Ethics committee tasked to review the scientific and ethical aspects of research protocols. A/Prof Tay is an examiner on law and medical law subjects for a number of professional bodies and universities in Singapore and overseas. She was an external examiner in medical law at the Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong. She conducts in-house training seminars and workshops for hospitals, banks, statutory boards, hotels, commercial firms and companies, clubs and associations. She is also a legal consultant appearing on many television segments. A/Prof Tay was a committee member of the editorial board of the Singapore Accountant Journal, Journal of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and the (United Kingdom) The Company Lawyer. She was on the Board of Overseas Editors for the (United Kingdom) Journal of Financial Crime, an official publication of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. She has presented conference papers at many conferences and seminars on Business Law, Medical Law, and Company and insolvency Laws overseas and in Singapore. A/Prof Tay has published numerous articles in international peer reviewed journals such as BIOETHICS, the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine; the (United Kingdom) Journal of Business Law, (United Kingdom) Business Law Review; the (United Kingdom) Company Lawyer and the (United Kingdom) Insolvency Law & Practice, (United Kingdom) Tolley's professional negligence, (United Kingdom) Tottel's Professional Negligence, the Singapore Dental Journal; the Malayan Law Journal; the Securities Industry Review and The Singapore Law Gazette. She received the 2008 Sinagapore Medical Journal Recognition Award for reviewing with Distinction for consistently submitting timely, detailed and scholarly reviews. A/Prof Tay cohosted a weekly talk show "In the Eyes of the Law" on NTUC RadioHeart and was a consultant to MediaCorp television series on consumer laws "What's Your Case" on TV Channel 5. 
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