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Alinta Consulting (Alinta) Offers:

Consultancy services
Training needs analysis; training design and development; training delivery; and evaluation services
A full administration service for delivering short course training programs
Hands-on support in all aspects of procurement and contracting practice

"Very engaging presenter with a lot of industry experience" L.M.

"The facilitator was engaging, knowledgeable and presented the information in an interesting way” D.W.

“I thought the course was very good. The presenter seemed to know their stuff and had some interesting stories which underlined the main points they were making” P.S.

“I found the presenters had an excellent subject-matter knowledge supported by their work history, and practically applied this to the learning environment. As a relatively new procurement practitioner, I found their delivery was targeted well on developing specifications” N.D.

“The trainer knew their stuff – the session was engaging and I found the discussion of case studies from other organisations really helpful” S.L.

“The workshop was very well run and one of the best I have attended. What I liked was that there were no distracting “Games” run and everything was to the point and illustrated with good and relevant real world examples” K.B.

“I found the training very engaging especially with the presenter providing examples of big government contracts going wrong costing millions” R. Z.

Training Services

Alinta Consulting delivers high quality procurement and contracting, probity, risk management, communication and presentation training courses to many Government Departments and entities.

Alinta specialises in providing in-house training that is adapted to meet our client’s needs. This includes tailoring to reflect a client’s internal policy and processes, procurement and contracting profile and the client’s location and availability.

Our highly experienced team of procurement, contracting, communication, risk management and training specialists have designed, developed and delivered training to commercial organisations, all three tiers of government and statutory bodies.

With a highly developed capability for contextualising our programs to client needs, Alinta Consulting is well qualified to develop and deliver any type of procurement and contracting training, risk management, probity, communications and presentation skills program to personnel of any level and experience.

Some examples of Alinta short courses include:

Contract Law Essentials
Fundamentals of Procurement and Contracting
Develop Specifications and Statement of Requirements
Effective Category Management
Procure Goods and Services
Managing Supplier Relationships
Introduction to Negotiations
Manage Grants
Plan Procurement
Managing Social Procurement and the Supply Chain
Developing and Evaluating Tenders
Manage Contracts
Establishing and Managing Contracts and Contract Performance
Advanced Negotiations
Identifying and Managing Risk within a Procurement
Identifying and Managing Risk within a Contract
Masterclass in Presentation Skills
Effective Communication

Sample Training Programs developed and delivered by Alinta Consulting:

Home Affairs DFAT AFSA ATO

Home Affairs

Department of Home Affairs

Contract Management Training

Alinta worked with the Department of Home Affairs to design, develop and implement a tailored Contract Management day-course to enable upskilling and development of staff across the department who are responsible for managing contracts in their roles.

The course is delivered face-to-face and aimed at staff who manage and are responsible for complex and medium risk contracts valued between $1 to $10 million. Alinta also manages all Course Registration, feedback and feedback reporting processes for this course on behalf of the department.

DFAT

Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT)

Procurement and Contract Management Training

Alinta designed, developed and delivered two separate one day courses on procurement and contract management on behalf of DFAT, with both courses delivered a minimum of 10 times a year between 2016 and 2019. The course was delivered in-house at DFAT office locations in Canberra.

Alinta developed a training workbook, training manual, and PowerPoint presentation to support delivery of the courses and also developed customised face-to-face shorter training packages for overseas posts and a selection of other procurement master class training as required.

AFSA

Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA)

Contract Management Training

Alinta designed, developed and delivered a Contract Management Fundamentals program one day training course to AFSA staff including senior management; to assist participants to get the best out of their contracts by building understanding of the regulatory, governance and legal framework impacting contract management within the AFSA environment.

The program was specifically tailored to AFSA’s needs and provided to participants a better understanding of the principles and disciplines involved along with AFSA specific tools and templates.

ATO

Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

Statement of Requirement Training

Alinta designed, developed and delivered this training course on the art of writing an effective and efficient Statement of Requirement (SOR) to ATO staff between 2016 and 2019.

The training was delivered to ATO officers from the APS 4 to EL2 levels across various business areas across Australia within the ATO, including procurement officers, contract managers and ICT professionals.

Tailored Presentation Skills Masterclass Course

Alinta designed, developed and currently delivers this one-day masterclass program to build on learnings from the ATO foundation level course (Design and deliver effective presentations).

The course is designed to enhance the presentation capabilities of ATO staff and incorporates a mix of theory, discussion, group-based activities and work-based scenarios. The workshop is designed to be highly interactive and is intended to help ATO staff across APS, EL and SES levels to critically appraise their presentation skills.

Contract Management Training

Alinta designed, developed and delivered this one-day masterclass program in 2019 to the ATO. Contract Management is a one-day training course designed to assist participants in developing confidence and a sense of awareness in managing Contracts and communicating with suppliers and internal stakeholders.

The training achieved this through building an understanding of the legal, risk, performance, relationship and management framework surrounding Contracts within the ATO and applying the framework to practical scenarios.

The workshops were designed to focus on developing key skillsets for effective, compliant, consistent outcomes, and incorporated a mix of theory and highly interactive discussion, group-based activities and work-based scenarios.

Participants benefited from real life practical examples which reflect the challenges and activities that their own work environments generate.

This learning process was supported by workbook learning guides, example activity/scenario/sample contracts with relevant hand-outs, and PowerPoint presentations developed by Alinta and tailored to the ATO environment.

Development and delivery of Webinar Modular Sessions

Alinta worked with the ATO to design and deliver a series of vibrant and memorable, 60 minute Webinar modular sessions on identified presentation skills topics delivered via the WebEx Webinar platform.

Consultancy Services

Alinta Consulting is a leading Indigenous consultancy with a proven track record of supporting organisational improvement and transformation, through contemporary and innovative solutions.

We have designed and delivered many consultancies, learning and development programs for agencies across all Australian Government tiers.

Alinta offers a wide range of services. Our niche is in the procurement and contracting environment, but we also help government entities build organisational capacity and capable people across many other business streams. We are government experts.

Our services are always tailored to our clients’ needs and we work closely with our clients to achieve their business objectives. We take a highly tailored approach to all our work.

Our team offers consulting advice and solutions expertise in a range of business consultancy areas including Procurement, Risk Management, Probity. Policy and Procedural reviews and Program review, assurance and design. We have developed whole of organisation risk and assurance frameworks, whole of organisation procurement frameworks, procedures and processes, reviewed Government programs and supporting implementation strategies for compliance with legislation and government policies and provided recommendations for improvement.

We have undertaken whole of organisation probity audits including organisational policy, practices and management and reviewed contract management practices as well as developing organisational level frameworks for contracting and procurement.

Our Procurement consultancies have also included:

Procurement Monitoring, Assessments and Auditing: conducting independent procurement reviews to verify if procurement activities are undertaken in compliance with government and departmental procedures, laws, rules and regulations.

Procurement Strategy Development and tender management: advising government departments, and Authorities on strategic approaches to procurement.
Procurement Reform: assisting Government departments and other organisations with procurement reform including reform and update of frameworks. procurement systems, structure, procedures and process assessment and redesign.

Sample Consultancy services delivered by Alinta:

ATO Home Affairs AFSA DAWR FRDC DFAT

ATO

Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

Financial Contract Adjustments

Alinta provided expertise and calculations within CPI and WPI variation formula and price adjustment indices for three providers identified under their Contracts/Deeds. This involved applying the adjustments to 110 prices across the three Contracts/Deeds.

Alinta also prepared, submitted and discussed reported findings and recommendations for financial viability reports with ATO contract managers.

Home Affairs

Department of Home Affairs

CCMD Portal review consultancy

Alinta was engaged to undertake a review of existing Compliance, Case Management and Detention (CCMD) Portal materials and development of new guidance and training materials for Status Resolution Section within the Department of Home Affairs.

This required Alinta to analyse and review all existing guidance materials and discover like for like processes/duplication, assess guides currency and relevance, and map the existing guides through process maps.

Based on the outcome of the mapping review, Alinta updated current guidance material using the departmental PPCF framework and format and demonstrated our well-developed ability to distil complex information and environments by generating straightforward, concise formats for the new guides.

AFSA

Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA)

Risk Review Consultancy

Alinta was tasked by AFSA to undertake a review of strategic risk and governance processes within the Authority and to develop a risk framework and tools to enable a procurement risk assessment process, including templates, that could be used by staff at AFSA to inform the decision making of financial delegates and that would satisfy Commonwealth PGPA Act, CPRs and financial requirements.

DAWR

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR)

Contract Management Review and development of Contract Management Framework and policies

Alinta Consulting was tasked with identifying the gaps within the Department’s Contract Management practices and providing recommendations on improvement, implementation and training to meet the future needs of the Agency. This requirement was based on the completion of the Agency’s internal audit focusing on Contract Management.

Alinta was also engaged to implement the recommendations of the report including developing a Contract Management Framework for the department and associated capability statements for contract managers.

FRDC

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

Probity Review

Alinta Consulting (Alinta) was tasked by the FRDC to review FRDC procurement probity practices with a focus on policies, processes and controls and make recommendations of any changes needed to its policies and procedures that would deliver better practice probity processes.

Alinta tailored the recommendations to the FRDC environment and to reflect the legal and policy obligations of the entity as an Australian Government Statutory Corporation.

Alinta reviewed the FRDC strategic and operational policies, procedures and Registers relating to governance, risk, procurement, employment, fraud, security, record management and reporting for reference to probity connected processes that were intended to integrate in to the FRDC’s procurement policy and procedures.

The FRDC risk policy, risk procedure, risk register and fraud control plan were also reviewed for identification and management of probity risks.

DFAT

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

Community grants program scoping and consultation consultancy

Alinta assisted the project team to develop the objectives, outcomes, investment concept and scope of the scheme and scheme documentation, including providing advice, input and/or leading discussions on the investment concept and investment design.

Alinta was also tasked with developing a stakeholder engagement framework to include advice on stakeholders to engage with, engagement methods and messages for the consultation and information sessions.

Alinta consultants attended the public consultations and drafted an investment design document with outcomes for the scheme (influenced by the broader consultations internally and with the Australian public) and developed the scheme risk management plan.

Alinta was also responsible for preparing application guidelines and a draft implementation strategy for the approved investment concept and investment design; as well as providing ongoing advice on the overall grants process as tasked.

Outsourcing strategy consultancy

Alinta worked with Secretariat within DFAT, in developing an outsourcing strategy for a specialist program.

Alinta’s responsibilities included the review and analysis of the current service delivery arrangements, policies, guidelines and related documentation to assess suitability/readiness for outsourcing.

Review and analysis of risks and management issues (e.g. change, financial, records etc) in relation to outsourcing models, making recommendations on where and how delivery arrangements, policies guidelines and related documentation can/must be strengthened or modified for outsourcing and recommendations on the most appropriate outsourcing models.

Development of approach to Market documentation for outsourcing strategy

The consultancy included developing the Statement of Requirements (SOR) for each management service including Key Program Elements as well as Supporting Program Elements.

To do this, Alinta drew from the five year evaluation recommendations, the draft strategy, the program logic and the concept note, articulating DFAT’s requirements for an investment and the context in which the investment is being designed.

This required Alinta to consult with DFAT business units and review the lists of tasks to be outsourced, review current outsourced contracts and incorporate services into the SOR, provide shell documents before commencing work on drafting the relevant output, estimate the whole-of-life cost for the services so that a value for money justification can be made for outsourcing and ensure the SOR provides clear technical specifications to provide tenderers with sufficient information to make an informed and detailed bid (enabling them to provide clear costings for each service).

Australia Awards Grant Moderation Consultancy

Alinta, performing the role of the moderator reviewed fellowship proposals from Australian organisations for funding that had already been looked at and scored by Posts and thematic areas. Alinta’s role was to identify inconsistencies in scoring across Posts and thematic areas and provide quality assurance.

This required the Alinta consultant to assess and moderate the application scores and participate in the Selection Panel meeting and advise other Panel members on the moderation process and issues for discussion. Alinta also provided the final report on the outcome of the Selection Panel.

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