Public Procurement and Funded Projects

Organisation over 20 weeks

Four 5-week blocks (4 weeks of classes, 1 week of assessment). The two course units are taken unchanged from the original degree: same content, same assessments.

• Blocks 1 and 2 (weeks 1 to 10): CMP 422 — Public Procurement and Project Contracts
• Blocks 3 and 4 (weeks 11 to 20): FPJ 532 — Setting Up Funded Projects and Public-Private Partnerships

CMP 422 - Public Procurement and Project Contracts

In the sub-region, a public project depends to a large extent on its contracts. The course unit enables the project manager to plan and monitor the award and performance of contracts, and to make the contracts of any project in the OHADA area legally secure.

Learning outcomes

• Apply the rules of the Code des marchés publics (Public Procurement Code) to the planning, award and monitoring of the performance of a project's contracts.
• Draft the technical documents of a tender dossier and analyse bids against predefined criteria.
• Analyse the clauses of a project contract (public contract, subcontracting, consortium) and assess their risks.
• Identify the appropriate method of dispute resolution for a contractual dispute.

Content

• Regional framework: directive n°04/2005/CM/UEMOA du 9 décembre 2005 (WAEMU directive on the award, performance and settlement of public contracts and public service delegations) and directive n°05/2005/CM/UEMOA (WAEMU directive on control and regulation).
• Code des marchés publics (décret n°2022-2295 du 28 décembre 2022), to be checked against any amendments; role of the ARCOP, formerly ARMP, governed by décret n°2023-832.
• Procurement plan, procurement methods, tender dossier, bid evaluation, award and appeals, studied from the text of the Code.
• Contract performance: service orders, amendments, acceptance, penalties, payments, to be studied from the text of the Code and from the contract documents.
• Procedures of technical and financial partners where they apply: methodical reading of the documents published by each funder.
• Private-law contracts in a project: contract for works and services, subcontracting, consortia and OHADA economic interest groupings; price, time, penalty, guarantee and ownership-of-results clauses; protection of innovations resulting from the project under the Accord de Bangui (Bangui Agreement) (OAPI), to be studied from the text.
• Dispute resolution: negotiation, mediation and arbitration under the Acte uniforme relatif à la médiation (Uniform Act on Mediation) and the Acte uniforme relatif au droit de l'arbitrage (Uniform Act on Arbitration Law) (Conakry, 23 November 2017); role of the CCJA.

Assessment: Project (50%): procurement plan and technical documents of a tender dossier for a given project, with a bid evaluation grid. Final examination (50%): case on the performance of a contract and analysis of a project contract. Same arrangements on campus and online.

FPJ 532 - Setting Up Funded Projects and Public-Private Partnerships

To enable the learner to design a project that will be funded and to monitor it: logical framework and monitoring and evaluation for projects of technical and financial partners; ex-ante evaluation and structuring for public-private partnership projects.

Learning outcomes

• Design a project using the logical framework approach, from problem analysis to the matrix.
• Develop a project's monitoring and evaluation system: indicators, baseline, targets, sources of verification, timetable.
• Draft a complete funding application in response to a published call for proposals.
• Assess whether a public-private partnership arrangement is appropriate and analyse its risk allocation in the light of the applicable legal framework.

Content

• Project cycle of technical and financial partners: identification, appraisal, negotiation, implementation, evaluation.
• Logical framework: stakeholder analysis, problem tree, objective tree, matrix; theory of change.
• Monitoring and evaluation: indicators, baseline, monitoring plan, reports, mid-term and final evaluation.
• Funding application: concept note, budget, results framework, sustainability; methodical reading of each funder's specific requirements.
• Public-private partnerships: loi n°2021-23 du 2 mars 2021 (Public-Private Partnerships Act) and its décret d'application n°2021-1443 du 27 octobre 2021 (implementing decree), to be checked against any amendments; directive n°01/2022/CM/UEMOA portant cadre juridique et institutionnel des partenariats public-privé dans l'UEMOA (WAEMU directive on the legal and institutional framework for public-private partnerships in WAEMU).
• Structuring a public-private partnership: ex-ante evaluation, risk allocation, project finance, monitoring the contract during its performance.

Assessment: Project (60%): complete funding application with logical framework and monitoring and evaluation plan. Continuous assessment (40%): ex-ante evaluation note on a public-private partnership project. Same arrangements on campus and online; the online learner carries out the project in their own environment.

Career opportunities

Project development officer, procurement specialist, monitoring and evaluation officer.

At your own pace: the self-paced pathway

In a class, this certificate takes 20 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.

Admission

Bachelor's degree in a related field or project management experience assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.

The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Project Management, within a period set by the certificate regulations.