Senior Procurement Office/Buyer

Somerset  ‐ Onsite
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Description

*Senior Procurement Office/Buyer - £/day - 11 month contract - Bristol*

Security Clearance: Must already hold BPSS + DS clearance or be willing to undergo.

We have an exciting opportunity to join Highways England who are currently recruiting for a Senior Procurement Officer/Buyer in Bristol. Highways England and Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) are each responsible for the operation and maintenance of the English and Dutch road networks respectively. Highways England and RWS have collaborated to jointly procure new traffic management systems to support the operational processes of Traffic Management Centres ("TMCs"). The objective of CHARM (Common Highways England and Rijkswaterstaat Model) is to move towards an open, modular architecture for Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) that is integrated, flexible and scalable, with the ability to easily integrate with new (innovative) or additional modules to add or modify functionality. In order to deliver this challenging project, a multi-faceted procurement programme (consisting of around 25 independent procurements) will be delivered, including provision of an ATMS system provider, a roll out contractor, a service manager, hosting and computing support, and support of Legacy contracts. The procurement programme also has many interfaces into other large interdependent procurements. In order to deliver this, an ICT procurement specialist will discuss business requirements and specifications, agree procurement strategies with business partners (including criteria for selecting suppliers), select tenderers, produce and input into tender documents (including supplier performance measures, specifications, schedules and evaluation methodologies), manage the tender process, evaluate tenders, and support business partners post-award. The role requires a strong proven track-record in leading ICT public procurement exercises (inviting/selecting tenders, managing contracts) and/or contract development work (with a knowledge of a wide range of contract types and forms and their application to business need).

The ICT procurement specialist will specifically support on the following procurements:
*Application support
*Critical communications network
*Research & Development procurement
*Technical consultancy

Essential skills and experience:
*A strong proven track-record in leading ICT public procurement exercises (inviting/selecting tenders, managing contracts) and/or contract development work (with a knowledge of a wide range of contract types and forms and their application to business need)
*Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook) with excellent presentational skills
*Driven; comfortable with autonomy and self-management
*Well organised

Desirable skills and experience:
*Experience of transport and/or emergency services sectors.
*Experience of using Oracle eBusiness Suite, eContrack and Bravo Solution eTendering.
*Experience of non-OJEU Research & Development procurement procedures (eg Pre-Commercial Procurement).
*Experience of NEC3 Term Service Contract (TSC).
*Experience of OGC ICT Model Contract v2.3 or GLS Model Services Contract.

Preferable qualifications:
*MCIPS
*ITIL
*PRINCE 2
*APMP

Start date
ASAP
Duration
11 months
From
Berry Technical
Published at
12.01.2017
Project ID:
1267485
Contract type
Freelance
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