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.