Summary

Project Procurement Management: A Guide to Structured Procurements focuses, through a practitioner's eyes, on the Project Management Institute's Project Procurement Management knowledge area. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge is used as a basis to describe key elements of structured procurements, including procurement planning, competitive bidding, negotiations, legal considerations of procurement, contract management and administration, dispute resolution, and procurement ethics. The book explains and elaborates on Project Procurement Management, bridging the gap between project managers and procurement professionals and guiding the reader on the how to of implementing a structured procurement methodology in a real life setting. Whether you are a project manager seeking to understand procurement or a procurement professional who is considering Project Procurement Management as a basis for building a structured procurement methodology, this book has something for you.