Course

Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment

  • Date: 04/15/2025 - 04/16/2025
  • Start Time: 8:00 AM Eastern Time
  • End Time: 5:00 PM Eastern Time
  • Level: Advanced Practitioner
  • Format: Virtual Instructor-Led
  • Contact Hours: 16
  • CEUs: 1.6
Having a strong grasp on legal decision-making, procurement law, and regulation interpretation is crucial for professionals in public procurement. NIGP’s Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment is a dynamic activity-based learning experience that covers various aspects of procurement law and best practices. This course will enhance your ability to navigate sole source requests, handle late protests, and investigate violations effectively. By mastering these skills, you will be better equipped to draft regulations, prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, and ensure compliance with authority in your procurement practices.
Pricing:
PriceCostBeginsEnds
Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment (Member: Standard) $465.0002/15/202504/13/2025
Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment (Non-Member: Standard)$565.00 04/13/2025
Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment (Member: Standard) $465.00
Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment (Non-Member: Standard) $565.00
(prices valid until Apr 13, 2025)
Spots available: 17

Objectives

NIGP's Advanced Legislation and Legal Environment course creates a two-day learning experience where students leave with the ability to:

  • Recall the legal decision-making process.
  • Identify sources and scope of procurement law.
  • Define the rules of regulation and court interpretation.
  • Identify sources of procurement best practices.
  • Respond to sole source requests by citing the law.
  • Render a legally-informed decision on a late protest.
  • Render a legally-informed decision on an unsolicited proposal.
  • Prepare a case if any resistance to a legal decision is encountered.
  • Determine any entity’s authority to define regulations when regulations are ambiguous/non-existent.
  • Recall the violation investigation process.
  • Define the terms “fraud,” “waste,” and “abuse,” pertaining to procurement.
  • Determine the appropriate action following a violation.
  • Draft a regulation in response to an entity’s issues with sole source procurements.
  • Determine a procurement professional’s authority to write regulations
  • Recall the regulation-writing process.

Intended Audience

This offering is targeted to individuals who meet or exceed the following professional demographics:  

  • Mid-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as senior buyers, managers, directors, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.   

  • Non-procurement managers and supervisors who either provide procurement functions that support entity programs under delegated authority, or who already have a good understanding of basic procurement principles but wish to get more in-depth, hands-on training.   

  • Professionals who are employed by local governing entities and special authorities (such as K-12 and higher education, publicly owned utilities, transportation providers, and other publicly funded or created entities) who either serve within or manage the procurement function.  

  • Supplier managers and supervisors seeking to understand the public procurement function from a more in-depth holistic level, including the policies, standards, and procedures by which public entities must function.  

Completion Requirements

In order to successfully achieve a digital badge, learners must:

  • Complete any pre-work materials provided prior to the course start date.
  • Attend and participate in the entirety of the instructional event.
  • Complete the post-course evaluation survey available in Aspire.
  • Complete the final assessment examination with a score 77% or higher.

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Payment Information

  • Register online with credit card
  • Register online and upload a Purchase Order
  • Register by fax and download the print & fax form

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Methods of Payment Accepted: Check (make checks payable to NIGP), Purchase Orders (via print and fax form or online), and Credit Cards (Master Card, Visa, and American Express).

If paying by check, please make check payable to NIGP and send payment to:
NIGP, Attn: Seminar Registration
12007 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 110
Reston, VA 20191

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Cancellation Policy

Registration and payment must be received 24 hours prior to the course start date. After this time, registrations will be based on space availability.  A full refund, less a $75 administrative fee will be given for cancellations made in writing 31+ days prior to the seminar date by emailing RegistrationInfo@nigp.org. No refunds are given for cancellations received within 24 hours of the seminar start date. There are no refunds for no-shows. If the seminar is cancelled for any reason, NIGP's liability is limited to the registration fee only.  

Attendee substitutions within the same agency may be done at any time with email notification to NIGP. If attending via scholarship, please provide documentation verifying the scholarship issuer's name and contact information in lieu of payment information. 

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