This training seminar will ensure that you understand how to decide rationally what maintenance activities to outsource and what not, how to select the best maintenance contractor and how to evaluate the delivered performance of all parties involved. You will understand the different contract types, get the most from your contracts, avoid the potential pitfalls and improve the performance of your assets. Maintenance contracts used in several branches will be discussed. You will have the opportunity to discuss the existing contracts used in your organization. Through a combination of formal lectures and group work, you will leave the seminar with the tools to improve your contracts and contract management.

This seminar introduces participants to the skills and knowledge areas of Maintenance Contracts & Outsourcing of today, such as:

• Understanding Outsourcing considerations
• Contracting types, incl. Service Level Agreements
• Key Performance Indicators to monitor performance
• Developing contracts – the contracting cycle
• Negotiating skills
• Continuous improvement and performance management: how to evaluate the performance with all parties involved

This training seminar will ensure that you understand how to decide rationally what maintenance activities to outsource and what not, how to select the best maintenance contractor and how to evaluate the delivered performance of all parties involved. You will understand the different contract types, get the most from your contracts, avoid the potential pitfalls and improve the performance of your assets. Maintenance contracts used in several branches will be discussed. You will have the opportunity to discuss the existing contracts used in your organization. Through a combination of formal lectures and group work, you will leave the seminar with the tools to improve your contracts and contract management.

This seminar introduces participants to the skills and knowledge areas of Maintenance Contracts & Outsourcing of today, such as:

• Understanding Outsourcing considerations
• Contracting types, incl. Service Level Agreements
• Key Performance Indicators to monitor performance
• Developing contracts – the contracting cycle
• Negotiating skills
• Continuous improvement and performance management: how to evaluate the performance with all parties involved

• All professionals negotiating, managing and verifying maintenance contracts
• Teams who have been assigned the responsibility of establishing a maintenance contract will find it extremely useful to attend this seminar as a unit
• Anyone who wishes to update themselves on Maintenance Contracts & Outsourcing

The seminar will be conducted along interactive workshop principles. There will be a variance of lectures, case studies, video material and practical exercises. Experiences from different areas will be discussed. There will be many opportunities for discussion and sharing experiences.

Day 1 - Outsourcing Considerations

• Introduction to program
• Introduction delegates
• Asset management
• The business impact of maintenance
• Considerations in outsourcing maintenance – what to outsource and what not?
• Activity on asset matrix
• Risks involved
• Case study: Outsourcing maintenance activities

Day 2 - Maintenance Contracts

• Maintenance contract types
• Parties involved
• The tendering process – modern ways of tendering
• Choosing the right contractor
• Costing the service
• Defining Key Performance Indicators to monitor the performance of all parties involved
• Use of Balanced Scorecard with performance contracts
• Interactive exercise and examples

Day 3 - Developing the Maintenance Contract

• Vendor management
• The contracting cycle
• Assemble a team
• Assess, determine and specify the required service levels
• Writing the contract – contents of a maintenance contract
• Interactive exercise: review some existing contracts
• Implementing contract management – how to make it work (performance management)
• Periodic evaluation & improvement

Day 4 - Grounding and Negotiating the Contract

• Expectations about availability, reliability and costs
• The extensive preventive maintenance schedule – “tricks” of maintenance contractors
• The seven steps to develop a risk based maintenance concept
• Using the maintenance concept to negotiate more effectively lean maintenance contracts
• Negotiating the contract – negotiation ploys
• Negotiating the contract – negotiation tactics
• Negotiating tips
• Interactive exercise and role play regarding negotiating

Day 5 - Final Workshop

• Development of a maintenance contract in groups
• Defining the requirements and service levels
• Develop the offer
• Selection criteria
• Presenting the bid
• Closing the contract
• Evaluation of results
• Wrap-up

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.

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