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The Osgoode Certificate in Public Procurement Law: The Rules in Practice

The Osgoode Certificate in Public Procurement Law: The Rules in Practice

Issued on 20 Jun 2025 by

Osgoode Professional Development, York University

Osgoode Professional Development, York University

Enhance your skills and knowledge in this comprehensive, highly interactive online program, designed by procurement professionals for procurement professionals. Focused on the practical, this Osgoode Certificate is delivered in a live, online format, giving you the opportunity to learn from and network with the leading experts in procurement law from across Canada. Over the course of five (5) modules, you will apply critical concepts in interactive workshops. In small groups, you will work with real-life case scenarios and have the chance to develop and refine your skills in a zero-consequence, supportive learning environment. Specifically, you will have the chance to develop a procurement strategy, handle a bid dispute, edit and review an RFx document and get feedback from course instructors.

Issuer

Osgoode Professional Development is the lifelong learning arm of Osgoode Hall Law School, one of Canada’s leading law schools.

We provide a uniquely broad and flexible range of interdisciplinary graduate-level legal education to professionals with and without law degrees.

Criteria

What You’ll Learn

  1. Public procurement rules and risks, including overview of procurement law and analysis of trade agreements

  2. Principles in strategic sourcing and the procurement process

  3. Strategies for developing the procurement strategy

  4. How to collaborate and participate in buying groups

  5. Critical trends in public procurement law and practice, including innovation in IT procurement

  6. Tips, knowledge and strategies when preparing the RFx

  7. How to administer the competitive process, including supplier relations, evaluation and selection

  8. How to incorporate active evaluation phases

  9. Techniques to establish and use multi-supplier lists

  10. Principles and tactics in standardization and multi-phase projects

Assessment Criteria

In order to obtain the Certificate, the learner must:

  1. complete/attend all modules.

Estimated learning effort

Approximately 35 hours of learning effort, spread over multiple weeks.

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