Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment

NIGP's Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment course creates a two-day learning experience where students leave with the ability to:

• Recall the legal decision-making process.
• Identify sources and scope of procurement law.
• Define the rules of regulation and court interpretation.
• Identify sources of procurement best practices.
• Respond to sole source requests by citing the law.
• Render a legally-informed decision on a late protest.
• Render a legally-informed decision on an unsolicited proposal.
• Prepare a case if any resistance to a legal decision is encountered.
• Determine any entity’s authority to define regulations when regulations are ambiguous/non-existent.
• Recall the violation investigation process.
• Define the terms “fraud,” “waste,” and “abuse,” pertaining to procurement.
• Determine the appropriate action following a violation.
• Draft a regulation in response to an entity’s issues with sole source procurements.
• Determine a procurement professional’s authority to write regulations
• Recall the regulation-writing process.

This offering is targeted to individuals who meet or exceed the following professional demographics:  

• Mid-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as senior buyers, managers, directors, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.   

• Non-procurement managers and supervisors who either provide procurement functions that support entity programs under delegated authority, or who already have a good understanding of basic procurement principles but wish to get more in-depth, hands-on training.   

• Professionals who are employed by local governing entities and special authorities (such as K-12 and higher education, publicly owned utilities, transportation providers, and other publicly funded or created entities) who either serve within or manage the procurement function.  

• Supplier managers and supervisors seeking to understand the public procurement function from a more in-depth holistic level, including the policies, standards, and procedures by which public entities must function.