School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Project Integration and Procurement Management
  • Unit Code

    MAN5410
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ahdieh KHATAVAKHOTAN

Description

Many of the rules that govern project procurements are statutory but are grounded in principles of sustainability, ethics, and equity. Procurements are often significant undertakings that demand strategic awareness with knowledge of operational drivers that inform effective decisions to deliver sustained value. In this unit, students will learn how procurements operate and how these approaches assist project managers to obtain the goods or services needed to achieve appropriate outputs. Using case studies, students analyse both sides of a procurement process; the buying side where services or goods are obtained, suppliers are selected and inventory is managed; and the selling side, where companies bid to provide services or goods. Ultimately, as a project procurement creates a legal relationship, students will also gain an understanding of private and public contract and procurement laws. Throughout the unit there is a focus on how the procurement and the underpinning contract need to be integrated into all aspects of the project to ensure that the result enhances business relationships and develops strategic outcomes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN5405. The online accelerated version of this unit is PRJ6408 Project Integration and Procurement Management.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Compare the approaches to coordinating and integrating the planning components for different methodologies along the predictive/adaptive continuum.
  2. Analyse holistic project procurement issues in a variety of project settings and in the context of a global environment.
  3. Justify how complex project procurement decisions can be ethically shaped to achieve sustainable and social outcomes.
  4. Assess the critical success factors underpinning contract negotiation, legal compliance and stakeholder engagement when finalising project contracts.

Unit Content

  1. Project integration for different methodologies along the predictive/adaptive continuum.
  2. Project procurement fundamentals.
  3. Project procurement and ethics.
  4. Project procurement laws, policies, and procedures.
  5. Contract negotiation, monitoring and closure.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProject exercise30%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProject exercise30%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Project Integration and Procurement Management
  • Unit Code

    MAN5410
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ahdieh KHATAVAKHOTAN

Description

Many of the rules that govern project procurements are statutory but are grounded in principles of sustainability, ethics, and equity. Procurements are often significant undertakings that demand strategic awareness with knowledge of operational drivers that inform effective decisions to deliver sustained value. In this unit, students will learn how procurements operate and how these approaches assist project managers to obtain the goods or services needed to achieve appropriate outputs. Using case studies, students analyse both sides of a procurement process; the buying side where services or goods are obtained, suppliers are selected and inventory is managed; and the selling side, where companies bid to provide services or goods. Ultimately, as a project procurement creates a legal relationship, students will also gain an understanding of private and public contract and procurement laws. Throughout the unit there is a focus on how the procurement and the underpinning contract need to be integrated into all aspects of the project to ensure that the result enhances business relationships and develops strategic outcomes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN5405. The online accelerated version of this unit is PRJ6408 Project Integration and Procurement Management.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Compare the approaches to coordinating and integrating the planning components for different methodologies along the predictive/adaptive continuum.
  2. Analyse holistic project procurement issues in a variety of project settings and in the context of a global environment.
  3. Justify how complex project procurement decisions can be ethically shaped to achieve sustainable and social outcomes.
  4. Assess the critical success factors underpinning contract negotiation, legal compliance and stakeholder engagement when finalising project contracts.

Unit Content

  1. Project integration for different methodologies along the predictive/adaptive continuum.
  2. Project procurement fundamentals.
  3. Project procurement and ethics.
  4. Project procurement laws, policies, and procedures.
  5. Contract negotiation, monitoring and closure.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProject exercise30%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseProject exercise30%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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