The 7th CIPSA Public Sector Procurement Forum - Day One Programme

Time

Session

Speaker

 8.00-9.00am

 Registration & coffee 

 9.00 – 9.05am

 Official welcome from Chair

Jonathan Dutton FCIPS,

Managing Director,

 CIPS Australia

9.05-9.35am

Public Service Delivery: Shifting from Process Accountability to Performance Accountability

• The challenge in moving to performance accountability in government.
• Recent breakthroughs and reasons for optimism.
• The cutting edge - 'payment by results'.

Gary Sturgess,

NSW Premier's Chair of Public Service Delivery, Australia and New Zealand School of Government

9.35-9.40am

Welcome & Introduction from the APCC

Teresa Scott

Director Operations

APCC

9.45-10.15am

How the public sector can leverage off (or improve efficiencies based on) private sector procurement innovations 

• The redefinition of 'value delivered' in private sector procurement is now wider and deeper than ever before. How can we translate this for the public sector?
• Getting strategic alignment demands knowing the corporate strategy and having a process for cascading it. Can this method be applied in the public sector?
• Creating a 'Balanced Scorecard' - from a private sector example that created step-change unification across a diverse multi-national organisation.

Craig Lardner FCIPS

Procurement Advisory Services

10.15 –10.45am

Refreshment break

The Conference will split into two streams after the refreshment break

Stream A – Strategic Procurement

10.45- 11.25am

1a - How successful are governments in delivering public procurement opportunities to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)?

Prof Guy Callender, FCIPS,

Foundation Professor & Chair

of Leadership in Strategic

Procurement,

Curtin University of Technology

11.30-12.10pm

2a - Commonwealth Government Update – reducing complexity, cutting red tape, stripping out costs.

Government purchases a lot of goods and services from many suppliers.  Both buyers and suppliers appear to think that procurement processes are more difficult than they need to be. This session looks behind these perceptions and identifies actions in progress to remedy them while retaining accountability.

Simone Pensko

Assistant Secretary

Procurement Implementation Branch 

Procurement Division

Department of Finance & Deregulation

12.10-1.05pm

Lunch

1.10 – 1.50pm

3a - The NSW Procurement Reform Programme

·Objectives of change programme

·Category Management

·Online Sourcing

James Norfor

Executive Director,

NSW Procurement,

NSW Department of

Finance and Services

1.50-2.30pm

4a - CASE STUDY: Defence procurement and professionalisation challenges 

Harry Dunstall,

General Manager Commercial & Deputy Chief Excutive Officer

Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO)

2.30 – 3.00pm

Refreshment break

Stream B – Tactical Procurement

10.45- 1.25am

1b - CASE STUDY: Airservices: The SRM Journey

·The Airservices approach to SRM.

·What is SRM? What are Airservices plans for SRM? 

·What are Airservices expecting to achieve through SRM?

Matthew Kay,       

Manager - Supply Chain and Contract Management,

Airservices Australia

11.30-12.10pm

2b - Politics and Procurement – a synergetic relationship?

·Collaborative procurement in local government – how six independent councils in South Australia work together to gain greater value from procurement activities.

·Getting things going as a “G6” and keeping them going – identifying opportunities and overcoming obstacles.

·Where to from here? Future potential and possible new models to be explored.

Brett Kahland

Senior Consultant Strategic Procurement

Adelaide City Council

Samantha Stute,

Manager Procurement and Contracts

The City of Burnside

12.10-1.05pm

Lunch

1.10 – 1.50pm

3b - Case Study: External Legal Services electronic-Negotiations

External Legal Services is the first All of Government services contract undertaken by the Government Procurement Reform Programme at the Ministry of Economic Development. When entering the negotiation phase of this procurement process, the Ministry chose to enter into pricing negotiations using an online e-Negotiation tool. This seminar will cover:

·Why the Ministry elected to run an electronic negotiation;

·The process of putting the e-Negotiations in place;

·The online tool we used, provided by Trade Interchange;

·The pros and cons of using an e-Negotiation tool, including identified risks; and

·Views on the process by legal providers.

Kate Thomas,

Procurement Analyst,

Ministry of Economic Development NZ

1.50-2.30pm

4b - Capability Development across the Public Sector in Australia

·Public sector trends and initiatives for developing procurement capability

·A focus on the development of both organisational and personal capability

·Common areas of developmental priority

·Analysis and insight across state and local government

·A global context with comparison with international initiatives and benchmarks

Chris Newman

Managing Consultant

And

Daniel Fielding

Director

PMMS Consulting Group

2.30 – 3.00pm

Refreshment break

 Plenary Sessions resume

3.00-3.20pm

Lessons from Welsh Government Procurement Reform

·Balancing savings with economic regeneration.

·Mandating action versus engagement.

·‘Once for Wales’ - an achievable goal?

Alison Standfast,

Deputy Director
Value Wales (Procurement),
Welsh Government

Via Video specially prepared

for CIPSA Conferences

3.20 – 3.35pm

Australian qualifications in procurement – International recognition meeting local needs

·Update on the professional development pathways to MCIPS.

·University tertiary programme accreditations.

·AQF qualifications in procurement.

Angelina Pillai,

Head of Education,

CIPSA

3.35-4.10pm

Corruption risks in NSW procurement: The management challenge.  

·How to strengthen procurement structures

·How to reduce opportunities for corruption in the process of procurement

·The importance of the people factor

Dr Robert Waldersee
Executive Director,

Corruption Prevention,

Independent Commission

Against Corruption

4.10 – 4.50pm

Panel Session

Is the job of public procurement slowly becoming impossible?

Facilitated by:

Jonathan Dutton FCIPS,

Managing Director,

CIPS Australia

4.50 – 5.00pm

Closing remarks

Jonathan Dutton FCIPS,

Managing Director,

CIPS Australia

5.00 – 6.00pm

Drinks & networking reception