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MSLV4800 Public procurement and corporate organizing Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Offentlige anskaffelser og selskapsorganisering
Study programme
Erfaringsbasert masterstudium i bibliotek - styring og ledelse / Masterstudium i offentlig administrasjon og styring / Masterstudium i styring og ledelse
Weight
10.0 ECTS
Year of study
2018/2019
Schedule
Programme description
Course history

Required preliminary courses

None

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

 

The student has

 

  • the ability to take a critical approach to different forms of organisation and market contracting in the public sector

  • insight into what the prohibition against public funding entails, with particular weight on what is meant by economic activity in the sense of the EEA Regulations, insight into the objectives that the rules on public procurement are intended to achieve, and the basic requirements that apply to public clients when engaging in procurement processes

  • in-depth knowledge of the effect of the procurement regulations and of the rules on selecting the competition form, the execution and conclusion of the competitive process, including knowledge on the potential consequences of errors

 

Skills

 

The student is capable of

 

  • identifying and analysing legal issues and consequences relating to restructuring or market contracting processes

  • identifying when different parts of the regulations on public procurement apply

  • analysing and handling legal issues when advertising tenders, and how to conduct this process, assess the tenders received and award contracts

 

Competence

 

The student is capable of

 

  • working independently on practical and legal issues

Teaching and learning methods

The teaching methods used are individual study, group work and plenary sessions. An important element of achieving the learning outcomes for this course will be the use of various case studies. Students are expected to be active in the work on these cases and work with the sources of law available in this field. Literature studies will be an important aspect of this work.

Course requirements

None

Assessment

The students will take an individual home exam over 48 hours. A case study will be an important part of the assignment.

Grading scale

A grade scale with grades from A to E for pass and F for fail is used.

Examiners

All answer papers are assessed by an internal examiner. External examiners are used in cases of doubt about whether a pass grade should be awarded and for spot check assessments of approx. 25% of the answer papers. The grades awarded for the answer papers assessed together with an external sensor form the basis for determining the level for awarding the different grades. The internal examiner shall take the external examiner's assessment into consideration in the grading of all the exams.