Bonus Contract Pack
DEVELOPING CONTRACTS IN PURCHASING & SUPPLY
Welcome to the ‘bonus’ features of your Profex Study Pack! This material is intended to support, extend and focus your study and revision for your Developing Contracts exam. While you’re on-line, browse through the content and use any links that look interesting. We’ll flag updated material for you in blue text, so that you can quickly see where there’s something new. You may want to save this as a Favourite in your Web browser, and opt to have access to it off-line (but remember to check on-line from time to time, for updates). Alternatively, simply print out the features that interest you. (We’ve kept the layout simple, for printer-friendliness…) CONTENTS Upgrade Exam analysis & answer finder Syllabus changes (from 11/09) Use the news Mark maximisers Can you test me on this? Updated March 2010 Updated March 2010 New March 2010 Updated March 2010 Updated March 2010 Updated March 2010
We published a Third Edition (April 2009) of the Effective Negotiation Reference Text for the latest syllabus, and a Fourth Edition was published in January 2010. The Upgrade material that follows addresses known issues in these new syllabus Editions. If you are still using the First (July 2006) or Second (July 2007) Edition of the Reference Text, please note that we have now removed the ‘Upgrade’ material specifically for these editions: all relevant points having long since been incorporated in the new syllabus editions.
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UPGRADE
At Profex, we’re committed to updating our Reference Texts annually, so our material will (we hope) be getting better and better – as well being always up-to-date. More or less. We hate it when we send a new edition to print and a month later, something happens to make it look out of date… This is our chance to put those things right – and give you a free Text Upgrade! Amendments and errata are where we put right our occasional bloopers. Updates are for examinable events (such as new
Welcome to the ‘bonus’ features of your Profex Study Pack! This material is intended to support, extend and focus your study and revision for your Developing Contracts exam. While you’re on-line, browse through the content and use any links that look interesting. We’ll flag updated material for you in blue text, so that you can quickly see where there’s something new. You may want to save this as a Favourite in your Web browser, and opt to have access to it off-line (but remember to check on-line from time to time, for updates). Alternatively, simply print out the features that interest you. (We’ve kept the layout simple, for printer-friendliness…) CONTENTS Upgrade Exam analysis & answer finder Syllabus changes (from 11/09) Use the news Mark maximisers Can you test me on this? Updated March 2010 Updated March 2010 New March 2010 Updated March 2010 Updated March 2010 Updated March 2010
We published a Third Edition (April 2009) of the Effective Negotiation Reference Text for the latest syllabus, and a Fourth Edition was published in January 2010. The Upgrade material that follows addresses known issues in these new syllabus Editions. If you are still using the First (July 2006) or Second (July 2007) Edition of the Reference Text, please note that we have now removed the ‘Upgrade’ material specifically for these editions: all relevant points having long since been incorporated in the new syllabus editions.
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UPGRADE
At Profex, we’re committed to updating our Reference Texts annually, so our material will (we hope) be getting better and better – as well being always up-to-date. More or less. We hate it when we send a new edition to print and a month later, something happens to make it look out of date… This is our chance to put those things right – and give you a free Text Upgrade! Amendments and errata are where we put right our occasional bloopers. Updates are for examinable events (such as new