Course

Competency Module: Mission and Public Benefit

  • Date: 05/05/2025
  • Start Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Time
  • End Time: 3:00 PM Eastern Time
  • Level: Foundation
  • Format: Virtual Instructor-Led
  • Contact Hours: 4
  • CEUs: 0.4
Skills like strategic thinking, effective communication, and stakeholder engagement are crucial for success in public procurement roles. NIGP’s Competency Module: Mission and Public Benefit is a comprehensive learning experience focusing on these essential skills. This course will enhance your ability to educate stakeholders, strategically plan procurement functions, and solve problems efficiently. By mastering these skills, you will be better equipped to advance your career in the dynamic field of public procurement.
Pricing:
PriceCostBeginsEnds
Mission and Public Benefit (Member: Early)$140.00 03/06/2025
Mission and Public Benefit (Member: Standard)$175.0003/07/202505/01/2025
Mission and Public Benefit (Non-Member: Standard)$275.00 05/01/2025
Mission and Public Benefit (Member: Early) $140.00
Mission and Public Benefit (Non-Member: Standard) $275.00
(prices valid until Mar 6, 2025)
Spots available: 23

Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Describe the roles, organizational placement, values, and functions of the procurement office as they relate to public entities as a whole.
  • Demonstrate how public procurement adds strategic value to the delivery of public services.
  • Identify why a public procurement professional’s performance expectation relates to the overall organizational strategic plan.
  • Use problem solving, critical thinking, and learning skills in an individual and procurement team context.

Intended Audience

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

  • Entry-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as assistants, coordinators, buyers, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.   

  • Non-procurement managers and supervisors who are responsible for either the procurement function or staff who provide procurement functions under delegated authority.   

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

  • Suppliers or representatives of suppliers seeking to understand the public procurement function from a holistic level, including the policies, standards, and procedures by which public entities must function.  


Completion Requirements

In order to successfully earn a digital badge in the Mission and Public Benefit competency, learners must:

  • Complete any pre-work materials provided prior to the course start date.
  • Attend and participate in the entirety of the instructional event.
  • Complete the post-course evaluation survey available in Aspire.
  • Complete the final assessment examination with a score of 80% or higher.

Competency Alignment

Get a Core Certificate: Foundations of Strategy & Policy by adding these competency modules:

  • Enabling Regulations & Compliance
  • Ethics, Integrity, Transparency
  • Legislation & Legal Environment
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Payment Information

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  • Register online and upload a Purchase Order
  • Register by fax and download the print & fax form

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Methods of Payment Accepted: Check (make checks payable to NIGP), Purchase Orders (via print and fax form or online), and Credit Cards (Master Card, Visa, and American Express).

If paying by check, please make check payable to NIGP and send payment to:
NIGP, Attn: Seminar Registration
440 Monticello Avenue Suite 1802
PMB 63452
Norfolk, VA 23510


Sessions

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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Competency Module: Mission and Public Benefit

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