Course

Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis

Name: Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis
Author: NIGP

Date: 11/06/2025
Start Time: 8:00 AM Eastern Time
End Time: 5:00 PM Eastern Time
Hosted By: Virginia Association of Governmental Procurement, Inc. Chapter of NIGP
Instructor: Ms. Carolyn L. Everett, CPPO, CPPB
Ms. Carolyn L. Everett, CPPO, CPPB
bb_lex2007@yahoo.com — Phone: 859-329-1068 — Fax: 502-573-2215
Professional Certification(s) obtained: CPPO, CPPB

Experience: Carolyn retired from Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Finance and Administration Cabinet, Division of Engineering & Contract Administration (DECA), where she served a Strategic Procurement Specialist III.

> With over 29 years of experience, she has held a variety of positions in both the private and public sectors. Carolyn started her formal procurement career in the private sector, purchasing IT hardware, software, and paper goods for manufacturing plants, including Whirlpool Corporation. Later, she took a public procurement position at the Cabinet for Health & Family Services (CHFS), where she began as Administrative Secretary to the Branch Manager of the Procurement Dept. There, she moved through the ranks of Purchasing Officer I, II, III, Purchasing Agent I, and Internal Policy Analyst II, conducting complex Request For Proposals (RFPs) for Child Support, Food Stamps, Medicaid, IT technology, maintenance agreements, copiers, cell phones, etc. She also conducted solicitations for construction projects, equipment, maintenance, repairs, and Capital projects for the various State agencies, as well as the Kentucky universities and Department of Military Affairs.

Carolyn is a long time member and served as Chapter President for the Kentucky Public Procurement Association (KPPA) and serves on the Forum Committee for NIGP

NIGP Courses / Topics:
Contract Administration
Contracting for Construction Services
CPPO PREP
CPPB PREP
Developing and Managing Requests for Proposals
Introduction to Public Procurement
Level: Advanced Practitioner
Format: Virtual Instructor-Led
Contact Hours: 8
CEUs: 0.8

Focus Areas:

Planning and Analysis
Risk Analysis

Procurement leaders are responsible for mitigating risks for their departments. Although every procurement professional is involved in risk management, every entity ultimately relies on its procurement leaders to protect the entity when it enters into contracts for goods and services. Mitigation of risks begins even before the procurement cycle is initiated with a process known as risk analysis.

When considering a new initiative, it can be difficult for a procurement leader to determine a starting point for risk analysis. Who is involved? How can risks be identified from various stakeholders? Will a specific procurement solve a problem, or is there another root cause? How can strategies obtained from a risk analysis be implemented?

Pricing:

Price	Cost	Begins	Ends
Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis (Member: Early)	$272.00		09/07/2025
Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis (Member: Standard)	$340.00	09/08/2025	11/04/2025
Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis (Non-Member: Standard)	$440.00		11/04/2025

Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis (Member: Early) $272.00
Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis (Non-Member: Standard) $440.00
(prices valid until Sep 7, 2025)

Spots available: 24

Objectives

NIGP’s Advanced Risk Analysis course is a scenario-based, 8-hour learning experience where students leave with the ability to:

Anticipate risks and problems that can arise during the procurement process.
Create and carry out an effective procurement risk management strategy plan.
Conduct a peer review of a solicitation to find errors and omissions or make other suggestions to the document, answer supplier questions, and determine appropriate contract terms.
Mitigate risk after contract award by ensuring that the people with appropriate approval authorities execute the contract, providing feedback to suppliers not awarded and handling protests and appeals.
Minimize risk throughout the life of the contract by monitoring deliverables, conducting reviews and checks on contract performance, mitigate any recurrences of issues, and monitoring customer buy-in.
Create a risk register to identify the items with the highest level of associated risk and actions that may be needed to mitigate those risks.
Reduce instances of litigation, mistakes, and speed bumps.

Intended Audience

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.

Completion Requirements

In order to successfully complete the NIGP Competency Module, learners must:

Attend and participate in the entirety of the instructional event.
Complete the post-course evaluation survey available in Aspire.
Complete the final assessment examination.

Miscellaneous

Payment Information

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Sessions

November 6, 2025

Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis

November 6, 2025
Competency Module: Advanced Risk Analysis

Cancellation Policy

Registration and payment must be received 24 hours prior to the course start date. After this time, registrations will be based on space availability.  A full refund, less a $75 administrative fee will be given for cancellations made in writing 31+ days prior to the seminar date by emailing RegistrationInfo@nigp.org. No refunds are given for cancellations received within 24 hours of the seminar start date. There are no refunds for no-shows. If the seminar is cancelled for any reason, NIGP's liability is limited to the registration fee only.

Attendee substitutions within the same agency may be done at any time with email notification to NIGP. If attending via scholarship, please provide documentation verifying the scholarship issuer's name and contact information in lieu of payment information.

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