Local Government Law

Intermediate Purchasing Seminar

The class will cover issues related to insurance, developing specifications and standards, legal aspects of bidding, purchasing and management of capital equipment, accounting and fiscal control, securing competition, disposing of surplus property, and ethics. Participants will focus on cases and will work in small groups.

 

Attendees

Officials with two or more years of experience in local government purchasing . All attendees must take the Basic Principles of Local Government Purchasing Course prior to registering for this class.

Program

Please email copies of the following two weeks prior to the course (4/13/09) to Eileen Youens. Please bring the same examples to class with you as well.

  • Your unit's standard terms and conditions for purchases
  • Specifications from a recent purchasing bid that you have worked on.
     

Tentative Agenda

Duration

3 days

Site
Information

Knapp-Sanders Building, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government

Credit

20 credit hours

Faculty
Coordinator

Eileen Youens

Co-Sponsor

Carolinas Association of Governmental Purchasing

Cancellation
Policy

Course participants who cancel their registration on or before April 13, 2009, will receive a full refund. Those who cancel on or before April 20, 2009, will receive a full refund, less a $25 cancellation fee. No refund will be made for cancellations made after April 20, 2009. All cancellations must be submitted in writing, as outlined in the School's cancellation policy.