Commercial and Contractual Management of Projects
CETM10
Assignment One of one
The Assignment
1. A critical understanding of appropriate commercial and contractual business issues relating to managing projects.
2. The ability to evaluate and assess commercial and contractual issues related to managing projects, utilizing appropriate tools, techniques and methods.
3. The ability to apply appropriate methods, tools and techniques to develop and
produce commercial and contractual plans
Different types of industries can vary the approach that they take to the way contracts for particular projects are awarded. In addition, the approach taken can vary depending on where in the world the project contract is for and which laws apply.
For this assignment you must produce a critical reference research report on the current thinking on:
The techniques that are used when tendering for a contract within a particular
country and how a project manager manages the commercial and contract
matters of large complex projects.
Note: the COUNTRY that you are writing about must be clearly displayed on the
cover sheet and referred to at the start of the assignment introduction.
Appropriate academic references must be cited within the assignment text to back-up and validate your discussion.
Your report must not be just a description of the topic.
The assignment must have the following sections: Cover page, Introduction
The various section making up the main part of the assignment, each section should have a heading, Conclusion, Reference list, References.
It is expected that you will mainly use appropriate academic literature (journals
articles and conference papers) to support your findings.
All data sources used and cited in the report should be correctly referenced utilizing the Harvard Reference System.
An assignment should use at least eight academic literature references.
A good assignment will have at least sixteen academic references and a really good assignment will have a lot more.
Except in exceptional circumstances all references must be less than ten years old.
References from general project management textbooks are not acceptable.
References from commercial and other web pages are to be use very sparingly and will not be counted as an academic literature references. Excessive use of such web pages will be reflected in a reduction of the use of references mark, due to using none academic references
Your list of cited references at the end must have the heading Reference List.
There must be a single line space between each reference in the reference list.
A general reading bibliography must not be included.
The Harvard Reference System must be used, see link on library web page.
Failure to use the Harvard reference system will result in the ‘Use of references’ mark being 0 (zero). There will be no exceptions to this rule.
Further Information
The assignment must be presented as a simple report and not as an essay.
The report should be professional in its nature and of a high standard and quality.
The report should be 3000 words long + 10%. The reference citation list is not part of the word count.
An excessively high or low word count may result in a reduction of your marks.
The report must be typed in ‘Times New Roman’, the body of the report being font size 12pt.
The report must be single spaced.
Grading
Quality, relevance and coherence of report narrative, 45%
Use, interpretation and relevance of references, 40%
Logical sequence of presentation within the report and presentation, 15%
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