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Tender and Procurement Administrator

Support quotations, suppliers, procurement and tender submissions.

  • Duration10 weeksat 8 to 10 hours a week
  • LevelEntry-levelBusiness
  • AccessStart freeFull pathway in NIBS Plus
  • Workplace Lab7 tasksReal work, assessed
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7 Workplace Lab tasksReal work, assessed

What you'll do every day

  • Run requisitions through to purchase orders
  • Maintain supplier records and documents
  • Request and compare quotations
  • Compile tender files with correct versions and control
  • Track submissions, deadlines and compliance checklists
  • Keep the procurement register up to date

Skills you'll build

5 skills, each with its own courses and the other careers that use it.

Tools you'll use

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Document management systems
  • Procurement portals
  • Microsoft 365

Named as the tools the job uses. NIBS claims no relationship with any vendor.

Your pathway, step by step

10 weeks, at your own pace. Start free; NIBS Plus opens the full pathway and the Workplace Lab.

  1. Foundation Digital Workplace Foundation: the systems, files and communication every office runs on.
  2. Skill Courses The skills this role needs, one short course at a time.
  3. Workplace Lab 7 practical tasks in the software the job uses.
  4. Portfolio The documents, spreadsheets and records you produced, kept as evidence.
  5. NIBS Credential Assessed against the NIBS standard and recorded on your Skills Passport.
  6. Professional Recognition What membership, CPD and designations mean in your field.
  7. Formal Progression The Office Administrator occupational qualification, where it is offered.

The Role Pathway that teaches this career

Skill Courses that also cover this role

Workplace Lab: the 7 tasks

Your simulated employer sends the brief and the files. You do the work in the real software; a facilitator assesses it against the NIBS standard.

  1. 1 Create the procurement folder for RFQ 041 Brief, files, submission, feedback
  2. 2 Check three supplier document packs for what is missing Brief, files, submission, feedback
  3. 3 Build the quotation comparison schedule Brief, files, submission, feedback
  4. 4 Prepare the submission and the approval email Brief, files, submission, feedback
  5. 5 Record the procurement in the register Brief, files, submission, feedback
  6. 6 Compile a tender file to the checklist Brief, files, submission, feedback
  7. 7 Handle a supplier query about a late payment Brief, files, submission, feedback
How the Workplace Lab works

Where it leads

Job titles employers use for this work.

  • Tender Administrator
  • Procurement Administrator
  • Bid Administrator
  • Procurement Assistant
  • Supply Chain Clerk

Vacancies, learnerships and internships are posted in NIBS Campus as they come. NIBS does not guarantee placement.

Professional recognition

Learning can lead to a profession. Here is what that means for this career.

Professional body to be confirmed

NIBS names a body here only once it is the relevant one for this role. Membership of a professional body gives you a community, a standard of practice, continuing professional development and, in time, a designation.

CPD: recognition subject to approval. NIBS claims none until a body approves an activity.

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Formal progression

Where a formal qualification is offered, this career leads toward it. A separate programme with its own registration, assessment and fees, never included in NIBS Plus.

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