Project Procurement and Contracting Management
Learn about the basic elements of contract and subcontract formation and subsequent project management activities as they relate to contract administration and subcontract management.
Harry D. Cleaver, Jr
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Description
Procurement and contracting have a strong presence in project management: few projects are self-contained and require no contracting requirements.
Detailed knowledge of contractual obligations is needed to make sound, meaningful decisions.
Learn about the basic elements of contract and subcontract formation and subsequent project management activities as they relate to contract administration and subcontract management.
Gain knowledge of contract types and their influence on projects, preparation of specifications, bidding, negotiating contracts, addressing the risks that are involved with procurement and contracting, and the complexities of contract administration as they relate to the goal of project completion.
Topics Include
- Elements of contract formation
- Contract administration
- Types of contracts
- Preparation of specifications
- Bidding and negotiating contracts
- Procurement and contracting risks
- Contract administration complexities
- Project completion
- Understanding management aspects of both subcontractors and vendors
- Online
- Intakes: On Demand
Meet your Instructor
Harry D. Cleaver, Jr., CPCM, CPE began his project management experience in 1967 in the Corps of Engineers on construction projects. That experience has since included managing a large project office for SAIC during the Y2K programs era.
His proposal management and contracts management experience began at Hughes Aircraft Company in 1975 as a senior negotiator/cost volume expert on high technology programs, and later on as the manager of a proposal center at SAIC beginning in 1983.
After 1986 Mr. Cleaver managed several major proposals for SAIC as a consultant, and then returned to SAIC in 1990 as Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and a corporate trainer until his retirement in 2006.
At that time he shifted away from corporate affiliations and his sideline business as an expert witness in Federal procurement court cases, and shifted towards a greater emphasis on his various training venues.
Mr. Cleaver has been a professional trainer since 1969, a Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) since 1979, and Certified Professional Estimator (CPE) since 1984. He has been conducting training classes for UAH since 1981, and for USM and CHL at the Stennis Space Center since 2003.
Mr. Cleaver received a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma (1967), completed a “Methods of Instruction” course given by the US Army (1969), and two certification programs in contracts management from UCLA Extension (1977-78). He received an M.S. from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2000.