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Transforming Project Management: An Essential Paradigm for Turning Your Strategic Planning into Action
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Transforming Project Management: An Essential Paradigm for Turning Your Strategic Planning into Action

by Duane Petersen
March 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
4h 31m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Transforming Project Management: An Essential Paradigm for Turning Your Strategic Planning into Action

CHAPTER FIVE

Procurements

Avoiding Contracting Disaster

The purpose of this chapter is not to provide an in-depth contract law course, but to examine specific issues that cause severe problems for projects and to provide unique and workable solutions for those issues. I’ve included enough information to protect against major issues relating to poorly conceived and executed contracts, as well as vendor relationship issues.

Laws Provide Protection Against Selective Enforcement

Some years ago, I was forced to inform the director of a major state agency that his organization had no enforceable contracts.

The difficulty was created by a contract the agency chose not to enforce. The agency had a vendor that seriously underestimated a fixed-price ...

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ISBN: 9781264258369