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Coursework Specification
1 Module Data
1.1 Module Title Procurement and Supply Chain Management
1.2 Module Code Quantity KB7035
1.three Module Degree and Credit score Factors Degree 7, 20 credit
1.Four Module Chief Dr. Victor Samwinga
1.5 Coursework Title Procurement Report
1.6 Coursework Specification Writer Dr. Victor Samwinga
1.7 Educational Yr and Semester(s)
SEM1 2021-22
2 Coursework Submission and Suggestions
2.1 Launch Date of Coursework Specification to College students
17:00 BST on 1 October 2021
2.2 Mechanism Used to Disseminate Coursework Specification to College students
Assessment and Submission folder on Blackboard module
2.three Date and Time of Submission of Coursework by College students
11:59 PM on 13 December 2021
2.Four The mechanism for Submission of Coursework by College students
Turnitin digital submission portal in Assessment and Submission folder on Blackboard module
2.5 Return Date of Unconfirmed Internally Moderated Mark(s) and Suggestions to College students
11:59 PM on 31 January 2022
2.6 The mechanism for Return of Unconfirmed Internally Moderated Mark(s) and Suggestions to College students
Turnitin digital submission portal and/or My Grades on Blackboard module
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three Assessment Particulars
three.1 Module Studying Outcomes (MLOs) Assessed by Coursework
1. MLO 1 – Set up a conceptual understanding of procurement and provide chain methods inside
the constructed atmosphere initiatives. 2. MLO 2 – Implement and critically consider applicable procurement processes by which
building initiatives and companies are acquired from inner and/or exterior sources. three. MLO three – Establish and critically consider applicable consumer necessities to develop respective
procurement and provide chain methods that allow undertaking success, enterprise advantages and total sustainable operations.
Four. MLO Four – Embrace professionalism, show multi-disciplinary abilities and apply skilled and specialised data within the area of building undertaking administration.
5. MLO 5 – Embrace intercultural cooperation by way of consciousness, accountable and skilled moral conduct in a reflexive manner.
three.2 Coursework Overview
Context Assertion: The development sector continues to face many undertaking supply challenges corresponding to time and price predictability. The necessity to determine and critically consider consumer necessities to develop applicable procurement processes has by no means been extra essential for undertaking managers, purchasers and the business at massive. This Assessment requires the submission of a person piece of coursework. It requires the manufacturing of a procurement report that engages with the data base in addition to the undertaking and client-specific traits. It’s to be written from the angle of an inhouse procurement specialist who’s making a theoretically- , and evidence-, knowledgeable project-delivery technique report.
This job is value 100% of the module and addresses all Module Studying Outcomes.
three.three Coursework Duties to be Accomplished by College students
CLIENT PROJECT BRIEF
As a part of Riverside Sunderland Masterplan, the Sunderland Metropolis Council plans to construct 1,000 houses to
hire and purchase, with group services and social infrastructure for a inhabitants of two,500. The proposed
undertaking seeks to create a novel place to dwell, i.e. a carbon-neutral group in a surprising panorama
setting within the coronary heart of an ideal industrial metropolis. With an intensive strolling and biking community and simple
entry to public transport, Riverside Sunderland will encourage wholesome dwelling and scale back automobile
dependency. Good houses can be digitally enabled for consolation, comfort and power effectivity.
Neighborhood services will promote sociability and energetic citizenship.
Following the current entry of the insurance coverage large, Authorized and Common, into the housing market, others are
eager to become involved too. Specifically, Vitality Life has secured (for the needs of this job) a
collaboration with the Sunderland Metropolis Council, as the first funder, to ship the imaginative and prescient for the
Riverside improvement undertaking, particularly, the 1,000 houses.
The primary 800 houses can be delivered in 4 new neighbourhoods: Vaux, Farringdon Row, Ayre’s Quay
and Sheepfolds. As the brand new group takes form different alternatives will come ahead, notably within the
Coronary heart of the Metropolis. 45% of the brand new houses (367 models) can be south of the river, at Vaux, Farringdon Row
and Ayre’s Quay, and 55% (445) north of the river, at Sheepfolds.
The bulk (72%) can be homes and maisonettes together with 378 three/Four-bedroom household homes. The
improvement will intention to realize a comparatively excessive density of round 74 houses per hectare throughout the
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entire web site, with a restrict of lower than one automobile parking tempo per dwelling, because of the massive push to cut back automobile
dependency and promote energetic journey.
Key Programme Options are described beneath:
1. standardised designs,
2. extra correct market intelligence,
three. offering jobs, coaching and supply-chain alternatives for Sunderland residents and companies,
Four. decreased prices with an formidable 15% goal,
5. improved programme certainty,
6. decreased danger, and
7. better innovation and improved relationships throughout the provision chain.
Key Challenge options are described beneath:
1. Substantial price financial savings,
2. Revolutionary, high-quality designs and sustainable requirements,
three. Versatile use of house,
Four. Tight building programme with improved programme certainty,
5. Collaborative working by built-in staff, throughout Shopper and Contractor groups,
6. Dedication to native financial system, and
7. Improved employment and abilities outputs.
The Council put ahead its land property on this partnership with Vitality Life who will, in flip, present the
finance for the £160 million improvement, with each events sharing equally in any improvement revenue
the place a improvement achieves a constructive land worth.
Though planning approval for the scheme has not but been granted, planners are assured that this can
be secured. Though the Council’s inhouse estates staff has technical building experience, they’ve
no capability to design and undertaking handle a scheme of this magnitude. They’re subsequently now searching for to
procure the mandatory experience to maneuver the undertaking ahead:
• Obligatory consultants to help in getting the undertaking off the bottom by January 2022.
• Development contractor(s) and such different specialists as are needed to hold out the assorted
parts of building work.
• The council’s personal inhouse estates staff has some preliminary concepts which they’re eager to discover with
the chosen advisor designers.
• The consumer is undecided on whether or not to award all the undertaking as one contract or to interrupt it into the
4 pure packages, in accordance with the 4 new neighbourhoods, particularly: Vaux, Farringdon Row, Ayre’s
Quay and Sheepfolds.
• The consumer can be undecided as to what different key advisor it wants to help within the securing the
accomplished undertaking in an effort to obtain completion by September 2023.
As the one one with procurement experience inside the Native Authority’s inhouse estates Staff, you’ve gotten
been tasked to develop a report (seek advice from “Duties to be accomplished by college students” for additional particulars) to information
the council within the procurement of the assorted works and companies required on this main redevelopment
undertaking. The consumer is raring to make use of this undertaking to enhance the picture of the North East in addition to to draw
funding to Sunderland.
TASKS TO BE COMPLETED BY STUDENTS
Primarily based on the consumer undertaking transient above, put together a excessive stage however complete procurement
report for the consumer, which:
1. Offers a ‘highway map’ for the Native Authority, demonstrating how it’s best to procure every
of the works and companies, how the consumer can be certain that the scheme is accomplished inside
price range and on time, how the consumer and funding companions can be concerned at every stage of
the method, and different particular consultants and undertaking members you intend they
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ought to procure and their main roles within the course of. Within the submitted report, due
consideration ought to be given to:
a) Figuring out the consumer and stakeholder wants based mostly on this transient and related
documentation,
b) essentially the most appropriate procurement association, allowing for the number of choices,
c) essentially the most appropriate primary normal type of contract to Help the general technique,
d) Probably the most appropriate tendering technique for acquiring essentially the most economically
advantageous tender,
e) the mechanism for pricing and agreeing the worth for the undertaking,
2. Present a crucial Assessment of how the Sunderland Metropolis Council and its improvement companions
would possibly have the ability to obtain their broad intention of driving efficiencies by way of the provision chain
and thereby save 15% of complete building and design prices.
Extra directions to college students: Your report ought to be effectively offered, with a one-page govt abstract (not more than 250 phrases) at first of the report, adopted by contents web page, an introduction, primary physique and total conclusion/suggestion(s) on the finish of your report. All of the above ought to be submitted beneath an acceptable entrance cowl, stating ONLY your scholar registration quantity, project title, this module’s code and tutor title. Your report have to be effectively structured and formatted together with a contents web page, web page numbers, appropriate headings and sub-headings inside the principle physique, and a declaration of your phrase rely. Please be aware there’s a most file dimension restrict (20MB) on submissions to Turnitin and college students should concentrate on this when getting ready their report. Reviews submitted by the due date and time as a consequence of their file dimension can be handled as late submissions.
three.Four Anticipated Dimension of Submission
▪ The higher most restrict for this work is Four,000 phrases. This phrase rely consists of:
▪ Any govt abstract. ▪ The primary physique of textual content. ▪ In textual content citations [e.g. (Smith, 2011)]. ▪ Direct quotations from main or secondary supply materials. ▪ Title & Contents web page. ▪ Phrases inside tables, figures, and illustrations. ▪ Reference record. ▪ Bibliography (if additionally supplied). ▪ Appendices. ▪ Glossary. ▪ Footnotes.
▪ Figures (diagrams, illustrations, pictures and so on.) and tables are welcome to Help the textual content, however have to be absolutely integrated into the submission, built-in and following the textual content that absolutely explains why they’re exhibited. 200 phrases can be counted for every separate determine/desk used.
▪ The work should type a structured and coherent entire. ▪ A contents web page is required, together with a fundamental entrance sheet for the submission, that identifies the
scholar quantity (not title), the full variety of phrases used (together with references part), and the variety of figures/tables used.
▪ ‘Footnotes’/’Endnotes’ can be permitted, as they will provide adequate worth, offering, their use is minimal, sufficiently concise, and applicable – they provide solely ‘clarifying’ info, or add ‘adjoining’ worth to the sentences already written. In different phrases, they aren’t for use to ‘cover’ phrases that may in any other case usually be anticipated to be contained inside the principle physique of the textual content, and their use can be thought of in accordance with the College coverage relating to phrase limits.
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three.5 Referencing Fashion
You might be to jot down your coursework utilizing the Cite Them Proper model of the Harvard referencing system. A web based information to Cite Them Proper is freely obtainable to Northumbria College college students at: https://www.citethemrightonline.com/
three.6 Assessment Standards
Marks can be awarded based mostly on the marking matrix connected to this coursework (seek advice from Appendix A).
Four Referral
The Referral Try alternative will usually happen after the end-of-level Development and Awards Board (PAB). Should you develop into eligible to finish a Referral Try however are subsequently unable to undertake the chance when required, you can be permitted to re-sit the module on the subsequent scheduled sitting of the module Assessment. This may sometimes entail the suspension of your development in your programme of research till such time that you’ve got accomplished the extent and develop into eligible to proceed.
5 Steering for College students on Insurance policies for Assessment
The College has a number of insurance policies for Assessment. The next info, which is offered to you from the hyperlink beneath, gives steering on these insurance policies, together with related procedures and kinds.
(1) Assessment Rules and Insurance policies (a) Assessment Rules for Taught Awards (b) Group Work Assessments Coverage (c) Moderation Coverage (d) Retention of Assessed Work Coverage (e) Phrase Limits Coverage
(2) Assessment Suggestions (a) Nameless Marking Coverage
(three) Late Submission of Work and Extension Requests (Four) Private Extenuating Circumstances (5) Technical Extenuating Circumstances (6) Pupil Complaints and Appeals (7) Educational Misconduct (eight) Pupil Incapacity and Unexpected Medical Circumstances
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APPENDIX A: Assessment standards / marking scheme
HIGHER
DISTINCTION (>79%)
DISTINCTION (70-
79%)
COMMENDATION
(60-69%)
PASS (50-59%) FAIL (40-49%) POOR FAIL (Zero-39%)
PRESENTATION (15%)
Presentation
(construction/fashion,
logic/rigour, grammar
and spelling, references)
DEMONSTRATES
OUTSTANDING
ABILITY TO:
Current the work
listening to
construction/fashion,
logic/rigour, grammar
and spelling,
references
DEMONSTRATES
EXCELLENT ABILITY
TO:
Current the work
listening to
construction/fashion,
logic/rigour, grammar
and spelling,
references
DEMONSTRATES
GOOD ABILITY TO:
Current the work
listening to
construction/fashion,
logic/rigour, grammar
and spelling,
references
DEMONSTRATES
ADEQUATE ABILITY
TO:
Current the work
listening to
construction/fashion,
logic/rigour, grammar
and spelling,
references
DEMONSTRATES
INADEQUATE
ABILITY TO:
Current the work
listening to
construction/fashion,
logic/rigour, grammar
and spelling,
references
DEMONSTRATES
LITTLE OR NO
ABILITY TO:
Current the work
listening to
construction/fashion,
logic/rigour, grammar
and spelling,
references
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
AND INTRODUCTION
(5%)
Write an introduction
part and
complete govt
abstract that features
are the important thing parts
together with objective or
report, background,
proposals and key
conclusions
DEMONSTRATES
OUTSTANDING
ABILITY TO:
Write an introduction
part and
complete
govt abstract
that features are the
key parts together with
objective or report,
background, proposals
and key conclusions
DEMONSTRATES EXCELLENT ABILITY TO: Write an introduction
part and
complete
govt abstract
that features are the
key parts together with
objective or report,
background, proposals
and key conclusions
DEMONSTRATES GOOD ABILITY TO: Write an introduction
part and
complete
govt abstract
that features are the
key parts together with
objective or report,
background, proposals
and key conclusions
DEMONSTRATES ADEQUATE ABILITY TO: Write an introduction
part and
complete
govt abstract
that features are the
key parts together with
objective or report,
background, proposals
and key conclusions
DEMONSTRATES INADEQUATE ABILITY TO: Write an introduction
part and
complete
govt abstract
that features are the
key parts together with
objective or report,
background, proposals
and key conclusions
DEMONSTRATES LITTLE OR NO ABILITY TO: Write an introduction
part and
complete
govt abstract
that features are the
key parts together with
objective or report,
background, proposals
and key conclusions
DETAILED
PROCUREMENT PLAN
FOR THE CLIENT (50%)
An in depth procurement
plan offering a ‘highway
map’ for the consumer,
demonstrating the way you
suggest they need to
procure every of the
works and companies, how
the consumer can be certain that
the scheme is accomplished
inside price range and on
time, how the consumer will
be concerned at every
stage of the method, and
different particular consultants
and undertaking members
you intend they need to
procure and their main
roles within the course of,
giving due consideration
ought to be given to the
most fitted
procurement
association, the principle
contract, tendering
preparations and the
mechanism for pricing
and cost for the
undertaking.
DEMONSTRATES
OUTSTANDING
ABILITY TO:
An in depth procurement
plan offering a ‘highway
map’ for the consumer,
demonstrating the way you
suggest they need to
procure every of the
works and companies,
how the consumer can
be certain that the
scheme is accomplished
inside price range and on
time, how the consumer will
be concerned at every
stage of the method,
and different particular
consultants and undertaking
members you
suggest they need to
procure and their
main roles within the
course of, giving due
consideration ought to
be given to essentially the most
appropriate procurement
association, the principle
contract, tendering
preparations and the
mechanism for pricing
and cost for the
undertaking.
DEMONSTRATES EXCELLENT ABILITY TO: An in depth procurement
plan offering a ‘highway
map’ for the consumer,
demonstrating the way you
suggest they need to
procure every of the
works and companies,
how the consumer can
be certain that the
scheme is accomplished
inside price range and on
time, how the consumer will
be concerned at every
stage of the method,
and different particular
consultants and undertaking
members you
suggest they need to
procure and their
main roles within the
course of, giving due
consideration ought to
be given to essentially the most
appropriate procurement
association, the principle
contract, tendering
preparations and the
mechanism for pricing
and cost for the
undertaking.
DEMONSTRATES GOOD ABILITY TO: Develop an in depth
procurement plan
offering a ‘highway map’
for the consumer,
demonstrating the way you
suggest they need to
procure every of the
works and companies,
how the consumer can
be certain that the
scheme is accomplished
inside price range and on
time, how the consumer will
be concerned at every
stage of the method,
and different particular
consultants and undertaking
members you
suggest they need to
procure and their
main roles within the
course of, giving due
consideration ought to
be given to essentially the most
appropriate procurement
association, the principle
contract, tendering
preparations and the
mechanism for pricing
and cost for the
undertaking.
DEMONSTRATES ADEQUATE ABILITY TO: Develop an in depth
procurement plan
offering a ‘highway map’
for the consumer,
demonstrating the way you
suggest they need to
procure every of the
works and companies,
how the consumer can
be certain that the
scheme is accomplished
inside price range and on
time, how the consumer will
be concerned at every
stage of the method,
and different particular
consultants and undertaking
members you
suggest they need to
procure and their
main roles within the
course of, giving due
consideration ought to
be given to essentially the most
appropriate procurement
association, the principle
contract, tendering
preparations and the
mechanism for pricing
and cost for the
undertaking.
DEMONSTRATES INADEQUATE ABILITY TO: Develop an in depth
procurement plan
offering a ‘highway map’
for the consumer,
demonstrating the way you
suggest they need to
procure every of the
works and companies,
how the consumer can
be certain that the
scheme is accomplished
inside price range and on
time, how the consumer will
be concerned at every
stage of the method,
and different particular
consultants and undertaking
members you
suggest they need to
procure and their
main roles within the
course of, giving due
consideration ought to
be given to essentially the most
appropriate procurement
association, the principle
contract, tendering
preparations and the
mechanism for pricing
and cost for the
undertaking.
DEMONSTRATES LITTLE OR NO ABILITY TO: Develop an in depth
procurement plan
offering a ‘highway map’
for the consumer,
demonstrating the way you
suggest they need to
procure every of the
works and companies,
how the consumer can
be certain that the
scheme is accomplished
inside price range and on
time, how the consumer will
be concerned at every
stage of the method,
and different particular
consultants and undertaking
members you
suggest they need to
procure and their
main roles within the
course of, giving due
consideration ought to
be given to essentially the most
appropriate procurement
association, the principle
contract, tendering
preparations and the
mechanism for pricing
and cost for the
undertaking.
HOW TO DRIVE
EFFECIENCIES
THROUGH THE
SUPPLY CHAIN (20%)
Present a crucial Assessment
of how the Sunderland
Metropolis Council and its
improvement companions
would possibly have the ability to obtain
their broad intention of driving
efficiencies by way of the
provide chain and thereby
save 15% of complete
building and design
prices
DEMONSTRATES
OUTSTANDING
ABILITY TO:
Present a crucial
Assessment of how the
Sunderland Metropolis
Council and its
improvement companions
would possibly have the ability to
obtain their broad
intention of driving
efficiencies by way of the
provide chain and
thereby save 15% of
complete building and
design prices
DEMONSTRATES EXCELLENT ABILITY TO: Present a crucial
Assessment of how the
Sunderland Metropolis
Council and its
improvement companions
would possibly have the ability to
obtain their broad
intention of driving
efficiencies by way of the
provide chain and
thereby save 15% of
complete building and
design prices
DEMONSTRATES GOOD ABILITY TO: Present a crucial
Assessment of how the
Sunderland Metropolis
Council and its
improvement companions
would possibly have the ability to
obtain their broad
intention of driving
efficiencies by way of the
provide chain and
thereby save 15% of
complete building and
design prices
DEMONSTRATES ADEQUATE ABILITY TO: Present a crucial
Assessment of how the
Sunderland Metropolis
Council and its
improvement companions
would possibly have the ability to
obtain their broad
intention of driving
efficiencies by way of the
provide chain and
thereby save 15% of
complete building and
design prices
DEMONSTRATES INADEQUATE ABILITY TO: Present a crucial
Assessment of how the
Sunderland Metropolis
Council and its
improvement companions
would possibly have the ability to
obtain their broad
intention of driving
efficiencies by way of the
provide chain and
thereby save 15% of
complete building and
design prices
DEMONSTRATES LITTLE OR NO ABILITY TO: Present a crucial
Assessment of how the
Sunderland Metropolis
Council and its
improvement companions
