Value for money performance has been identified by the Omani Government as a priority area for securing efficiency improvements and releasing resources for use in delivering front-line services. It has been stated that value for money performance assessment in public sector organisations in the Oman has been varied across regions and projects, bordering on inefficiency and ineffectiveness.
As a consultant project manager write a report to the Omani’s public sector project monitoring agency (department, ministry, etc) that:
- Explains the concept of value for money in the context of public sector procurement
- Outlines failure factors in value for money performance assessment and attainment of public sector infrastructure procurementin Oman
- Outlines an approach(solutions) that mitigates failure factors outlined in part 2
- Describes briefly and specifically the opportunities for value management in the strategic and project briefing of a public sector infrastructure project to be procured as a design and build project.
Maximum 2500 words
Assignment 2 – Value Management
Marking schedule
- Description of value for money. 30 marks
- Failure factors in VFM performance assessment and attainment. 30 marks
- Failure factors mitigation approach 15 marks
- Intervention points 15 marks
- Report structure, style and presentation 10 marks
Report Writing
The University website which gives very sound advice on the submission of coursework in general and reports in particular.
- The report should NOT be an assembly of referenced material from which the reader may infer an answer. Referenced material should be used to reinforce or substantiate a point being made in the report. The explanations given should be explicit and focused on the case study problem. Material should be synthesised in the context of the case study and recommendations given.
- Use bullet lists carefully. Do not end a section within the report or even the report itself with a bulleted list. Lists must always be rounded off with a sentence or paragraph summarising the final point of that section.
- Every report should have a conclusion and every report of this nature should have recommendations. The Senior Property Officer will be seeking assistance from the expert, the project manager, on the route to take with regard to this project.
- Read over the report before submission.
- Check your reports for no page numbers, obvious spelling mistakes and font changes (a classic sign of block copying).
- Make sure you include your name, especially if one is submitting via email.
- If appendices have been included then they should be referred to in the text. It is not for the reader to discover them and wonder at their relevance.
- Do not list references that have not been referred to in the text. Do not give references in the text which are not referenced in the References.
- All sections should be attempted