International Management

The goal is to provide students with modern knowledge about the essence, content, features and characteristics, functions, technologies and methods of international management, as well as to provide practical skills for their application in professional activities.

Objectives:

• establishing cause-and-effect relationships, analyzing and summarizing data in a certain system, comparing facts based on knowledge obtained from various sources;
• establishing effective communications for professional activities;
• developing technologies for making and implementing management decisions in the field of international management;
• acquiring skills in developing justifications for proposals for improving management in public authorities;
• the ability to implement state reform projects taking into account the principles of international management.

Industrial Organisation

The module will allow students to understand the specific features of industrial markets and the common features of their functioning. Understanding these processes will allow to expand and systematize the areas of effective interaction within certain industrial markets and the economy as a whole, to determine the directions of regulation of industrial markets in the context of post-war recovery of Ukraine.

Objectives:

• to analyse the efficiency of sectoral markets;
• substantiating proposals for overcoming sectoral imbalances in the structure of the economic system;
• development of effective instruments of public-private partnership;
• strengthening the competitiveness of the national economy as part of the post-war recovery strategy.

Negotiation and Team Building

The aim of the module is developing students’ negotiation skills by illustrating them the tools that can be used to choose the effective strategy to win (win-win, hard or compromise strategy). The course also illustrated the Best Alternative to Agreement Negotiation (BATNA), the Kraljic Matrix and the main unfair tactics that can be used during negotiation. In this module students learn how to apply such strategies and tactics by doing specific negotiation exercises.

Objectives:

• developing the knowledge of the main negotiation strategies and techniques;
• developing the ability to set a negotiation and analyze the context (the importance of supplier, the power of the parties, the expected length of the relationship with the supplier, the objectives);
• developing the knowledge of the personal negotiation aptitudes that are generally used with the counterpart;
• developing the ability to lead a negotiation trough the integration (win-win) model based on the Fisher and Ury’s theory;
• developing the ability to recognize and neutralize the unfair tactics that the counterpart can use.

Economics of Procurement

The aim is to familiarize students with the most important strategic aspects of public procurement. Students also gain practical knowledge on assessing the effectiveness of public procurement systems, as well as on applying the method of the Italian Commissioner Bondi to review the structure of public spending:

Objectives:

The objectives of module are to define and identify effective public procurement design, in particular on topics as follows:

• centralization;
• auctions vs negotiations;
• contracting strategies and incentives;
• auction formats;
• best value for money;
• scoring rules;
• division in lots;
• collusion and corruption;
• dynamic procurement.

Legal Background

During this module students analyse the main legal framework that regulates procurement at European and international level.

Objectives:

• introduce general rules of the European Union applicable in public procurement;
• make an accurate analysis of EU Directive 2004/18/EC and a general overview of the new Directive 2014/24/EU;
• make an analysis of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA);
• introduce the accession to the GPA and define its potential benefits and costs;
• analyse the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement.

Planning and Management of Procurement Operation

The purpose of this module is to develop comprehensive critical understanding, knowledge and skills for the definition of the public procurement strategy and for the effective implementation of public works.

Objectives:

• understand what is the project cycle, how the different phases of the project cycle are organized and what are the deliverables of each phase;
• illustrate how to move from the programme to the implementation of the projects;
• illustrate what is a procurement plan and its main features;
• explain which are the possible implementation options for works;
• explain which are the main types of works contracts;
• define and identify what are the standard procurement procedures for works contracts;
• understand what are the crucial factors of works contract management.

Competition and Procurement

The aim is to provide tools for the economic analysis of market processes and competition policy.

Particular attention is paid to competition issues related to public procurement management (tender design and possible collusion between bidders). The course is complemented by a discussion of a number of decisions of national competition authorities (NCAs) and the European Commission.

Objectives:

• illustrate the efficiency properties of competition;
• identify the structural conditions and the conduct of firms that may impair competition;
• introduce the main concepts of European Competition Law and their interplay with public procurement;
• show the main techniques that reduce the risk of collusion in Public Procurement by leveraging on the enforcement and coordination problems of anticompetitive behaviours.

Contract Complaints and Disputes

This module explores disputes as they arise in public procurements between economic operators and contracting authorities, from the early stages of acquisition planning through the competition and award of contracts and ending with disputes during contract performance. At each stage, the module consideres ways to prevent disputes as well as ways to amicably resolve them, but also, where disputes persist, issues surrounding their litigation. The module also includes a segment devoted to “obtaining value for money,” which addressed the real-world challenge of conducting procurements so that the public’s money spent on government contracts is spent wisely.

Objectives:

• to introduce students to the types of disputes that arise during the various stages of public procurement;
• to introduce students to the role that ‘best value’ methodology can play in the prevention and resolution of procurement disputes;
• to introduce students to the positive roles that alternative dispute resolution can play;
• to explore ways to ensure that procurements are conducted so as to obtain maximum value for the money spent.

Green Procurement

The course is dedicated to integrating environmental aspects into the public procurement process. The main objective of the module is to provide participants with an understanding of how to transform procurement into a tool for strategic impact to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensure environmental safety and responsibility in the public sector.

Objectives:

• To study the international and European regulatory framework governing Green Public Procurement and socially responsible procurement.
• To master the methodology of Life Cycle Costing (LCC) instead of traditional price analysis, which allows taking into account long-term environmental and economic benefits.
• To learn how to develop tender documentation with the integration of environmental criteria and social requirements (e.g. respect for workers' rights, energy efficiency, ecolabels).
• To identify the key challenges and barriers that public authorities face when transitioning to a green procurement model, and to explore ways to overcome them based on successful international practices.
• Understand the role of the procurement officer as a strategic manager capable of balancing financial efficiency and global sustainable development goals.

Integrity and Anticorruption in Public Procurement

Procurement systems around the world face similar problems: while there is common agreement on the principles which undergird procurement, how to address the corruption endemic to procurement systems is a work in progress.

Objectives:

• learn about common approaches to anticorruption in procurement, from bid remedies to anti-fraud measures;
• identify common patterns in anticorruption systems, such as corporate compliance and debarment systems;
• define and identify 7 stages of development of the public procurement function;
• give an understanding of the legal framework associated with the control of corruption in public procurement process, including the relevant provisions in the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, the UN Convention Against Corruption, the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law and EU Procurement Directives;
• give a practical understanding of the types of corruption that procurement practitioners face in practice during the course of procurement processes;
• provide an understanding of the governance and structures that can be used to combat corruption.

Strategic Procurement and Quality Management

The course highlights the role of public procurement in the economic environment and examines modern approaches to the joint design of public service delivery in the field of public procurement. In addition, an integral part of the successful implementation of strategic procurement is compliance with quality standards, understanding international requirements and approaches

Tasks:

• Analysis of ISO 9001 certification requirements and its relationship with public procurement.
• Overview of methods for measuring consumer satisfaction.
• Highlighting the relationship between strategic public procurement and innovation;
• Analysis of the concept of consumer value and joint design of public procurement;
• Consideration of social public procurement and integration into Directive 2014/24/EU.

Law and Economics of Public Private Partnership

In recent years, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) have developed in many fields and across countries. The module is designed to give an understanding of PPPs: what they are, how they work. A specific focus was given to the analysis of the relationship between public administration and private partner, the selection of private partner, especially when it concerns complex projects. Students also analysed some PPP models: Project Financing, Concessions, General Contractor, Institutionalized PPP (IPPP) and In-house providing.

Objectives:

• analyse the legal background of PPP in an international perspective, taking into account different PPP types and roles in financing infrastructure;
• illustrate the main questions arising in managing different PPP models, in the selection of the private partner and in the enforcement of PPP contracts;
• illustrate the Economics of PPPs, how to apply the economic theory of contracts and incentives to the alignment of the interests of different parties, to structure payments, and to allocate risks efficiently.

IFI`s Procurement Procedures

The purpose of this module – which is structured into two parts, module 11 and module 11bis, in two weeks – is to provide participants with a comprehensive knowledge of the principles, the policies, the rules and the procedures governing procurement under public sector projects financed by the major International Financial Institutions (IFIs), with the focus on the policies of EBRD.

Lectures are held by high professionals coming from different IFIs such as EBRD, European Investment Bank (EIB) and African Development Bank (AfDB), the World Bank, FIDIC etc as well as, a complementary contribution from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The aim of the course is to provide attendants with a comprehensive knowledge on the principles, the rules and the procedures governing public procurement: in order to do that, apart from the special regard devoted to formal regulation also specific attention will be paid to case- law.

Objectives:

• illustrate why procurement is important in IFI projects;
• illustrate IFI procurement policies and rules;
• illustrate how to apply the advantages of sound procurement and the IFI’s procurement policies;
• illustrate how to identify main procurement issues during project implementation in real life;
• analyse the role of the IFIs on procurement supervision;
• analyse contract management techniques and strategic tools within the context of international public procurement procedures and empirical evidence.

E-Procurement

In order to achieve efficiency in procurement process, it is required to implement the use of electronic means in compliance with general principles of non discrimination, transparency and fair competition. The course will focus on best practices of e-procurement.

Provide a comprehensive overview of the adoption of ICT tools to support public procurement procedures, through analysis of the European experience.

The module aims at exposing students to the most important aspects of e-procurement. During this module students are given a long term assignment to be done individually that consisted in writing a paper in order to assess the use of electronic public procurement in each student’s country.

Objectives:

• illustrate the changes and challenges introduced by new Directives of the European Union in the field of e-procurement;
• illustrate the different phases of the electronic public procurement life cycle;
• illustrate the main electronic public procurement business models;
• definition of key performance indicators (KPIs).

Social vs Innovative Procurement

The module outlines the role that public procurement plays in the economic arena and the enhanced approaches available to co-design public services provision with the users. A special focus is given to social public procurement and procurement as a tool for innovation.

The module is structured into two tracks, one dealing with the social aspects of Procurement (gender, human rights, discrimination etc) and the second one with the strategic role pf procurement as a driver for innovation.

Objectives:

• analyse the roll of procurement for sustainable goals;
• illustrate the link between strategic public procurement and innovation;
• illustrate the main issues related to public procurement and relevant policy actions undertaken.

National Procurement Regulation

The objectives of this module are to deepen students' knowledge and broaden their understanding of the strategic goals of public procurement development in Ukraine, as well as the role of effective public procurement in the development of the country's economy.

An important and special part of this module is the focus on aspects of international cooperation and interaction of Ukraine with international organizations and partners, including the role of international donors in the process of restoring Ukraine, assessing the needs for recovering, tasks and challenges for public procurement in this process.

Objectives:

• The role of public procurement in the economy of Ukraine.
• Public procurement legislation in Ukraine. Changes and adaptation of legislation during martial law. Exclusion from legislation in the field of public procurement. Legislation of Ukraine on concessions and PPPs.
• Problems of overcoming corruption and fraud in public procurement in Ukraine
• State policy and measures in the field of recovery. The role of international donors in the process of rebuilding Ukraine. Recovery and Reconstruction Needs Assessment of Ukraine (RDNA). Procurement for Recovery: Tasks, Tools and Challenges.
• FTAs of Ukraine regulating public procurement relations.
• The approximation of Ukrainian legislation on public procurement with the EU acquis. Negotiation process on accession to the EU under Chapter 5 "Public Procurement".

National Recovery Strategies

The aim of the module is to form a system of theoretical knowledge and practical skills on the topic of development and implementation of recovery strategies by states in the context of escalating international conflicts.

Objectives:

• To analyse and evaluate the implementation of the national recovery strategy, taking international experience and integration processes into account.
• To understand the principles of building a post-war recovery strategy for Ukraine.
• To identify priority sectors of Ukraine's post-war recovery.
• To determine the role of territorial communities in the process of post-war recovery of Ukraine.
• To substantiate recommendations on the optimum format of public-private partnerships in the implementation of international recovery projects.

Competition Law

This module is dedicated to studying the principles and practical aspects of protecting economic competition, focusing on the legislation of Ukraine, the practice of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, and relevant judicial practice.

Objectives:

• Analysis and assessment of the application of competition law in practice.
• Development of legal recommendations on economic competition relations.
• Ensuring compliance with legal norms in the field of public procurement.
• Analysis of the impact of European Union legislation on the development of Ukrainian competition law.