Procurement under donor and EU rules
Programme · 1 day · online
A one-day programme for NGO procurement staff and project teams who buy goods and services with donor funds. We cover procedures, the procurement file and what the auditor looks at first.
In short
Procurement under donor and EU rules
The programme runs for 1 day online and deals with procurement under EU and other donor rules. We cover choosing the procedure, comparing quotes, conflicts of interest, the contents of the procurement file and the auditor’s usual questions. It is led by MK Audit auditors and accountants who review procurement in donor-funded projects.
Who it is for
- NGO procurement staff
- Project managers and coordinators
- Accountants who receive procurement documents
- Members of procurement committees
Format
1 day online in Zoom, with a review of participants’ purchases
Programme
- Where the rules come from: the grant agreement, EU procedures, internal policy
- Choosing the procedure by value and subject of the purchase
- Requesting and comparing quotes, evaluation criteria, the evaluation report
- Conflicts of interest: declarations, recusal, related parties
- The procurement file: what it must contain from request to payment
- What the auditor checks in procurement and where questions usually arise
- Review of participants’ purchases
After the training you will be able to
- choose a procurement procedure that fits your grant agreement
- document the comparison of quotes and the award decision
- assemble a complete procurement file from request to payment
- identify and document a conflict of interest in a purchase
How pre-registration works
Leave a request in the form below. When a group is formed, we send the date, the hour-by-hour programme and the terms. Registering does not commit you to anything.
Questions
When will the training take place?
We will announce the date once a group is formed. Everyone registered hears first and gets the hour-by-hour programme.
Can you run the programme just for our organisation?
Yes. We adapt it to your projects and donors and agree the number of hours and the format separately.
How much does it cost?
We send the terms together with the date once a group is formed. Pre-registering does not commit you to anything.