Procurement process
Running compliant procurements, from planning and specification through routes to market, tender, award, and contract signature, including buying through frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems.
Levels
- 1. Awareness
You can:
- explain the stages of a procurement and the thresholds that apply
- get quotes for low-value purchases following the organisation's rules
- 2. Working
You can:
- run quotations and call-offs from frameworks using standard templates
- prepare tender documents and manage clarification questions on the e-tendering system
- keep a clear audit trail of each procurement
- 3. Practitioner
You can:
- plan and lead complex tenders, choosing the right route to market and procedure
- help users write outcome-based specifications for digital and clinical systems
- manage timetables, risks, and stakeholders through to contract award
- 4. Expert
You can:
- set the organisation's procurement procedures and templates
- lead the most complex, high-value, or novel procurements
- assure procurement decisions for the board
Closest ESCO skills
- perform procurement processes
- manage tender processes
- procurement lifecycle
- draft tender documentation
Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
Role levels that expect this skill
| Role level | Role | Band | Expected level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category manager (digital and technology) | Category manager | 8a | Practitioner |
| Head of procurement | Head of procurement | 8c | Expert |
| Procurement assistant | Procurement officer | 3 | Awareness |
| Buyer | Procurement officer | 4 | Working |
| Procurement officer | Procurement officer | 5 | Practitioner |
| Senior procurement officer | Procurement officer | 6 | Practitioner |