Beyond the Basics: Advanced Strategies for Verifying References
Date/Time
3/18/2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern
Event Registration
Event Type(s)
March Procurement Month Educational Series
Event Description
March 18, 2025 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Virtual Event
Registration closes on March 14, 2025
Join us for OPBA's weekly educational series celebrating March Procurement Month! This is the third session in our 4-part series.
Reference checks can be a valuable tool in procurement—but they also come with challenges. This session explores advanced strategies for verifying vendor references, balancing transparency with privacy considerations, and ensuring a fair and effective evaluation process.
What We'll Cover:
Presenter: Michael Burjaw, Vendor Relations Specialist at the City of Hamilton
Virtual Event
Registration closes on March 14, 2025
Join us for OPBA's weekly educational series celebrating March Procurement Month! This is the third session in our 4-part series.
Reference checks can be a valuable tool in procurement—but they also come with challenges. This session explores advanced strategies for verifying vendor references, balancing transparency with privacy considerations, and ensuring a fair and effective evaluation process.
What We'll Cover:
- Providing Vendor References
- What can and should you disclose when asked for a reference?
- How to handle situations where a vendor disputes the information provided.
- Handling Non-Responsive References
- Strategies to improve response rates from project references.
- What to do if a reference doesn’t reply.
- Vendors Using Your Organization as a Reference
- Should vendors be allowed to list your organization as a reference?
- Setting clear guidelines and expectations.
- Managing situations where a vendor is surprised by negative feedback.
- Using References as an Evaluation Criterion
- Differentiating relevant project experience from references.
- Best practices for weighting references in the evaluation process.
- Strategies for Obtaining Reference Checks
- Using a structured and consistent approach.
- Comparing written vs. verbal reference checks—when to use each method.
Presenter: Michael Burjaw, Vendor Relations Specialist at the City of Hamilton
Registration Fees:
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Title |
Fee |
Member Status |
Points |
CEUs |
Hours |
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Members |
$0.00 |
Members Only |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
1.00 |
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Non Members |
$35.00 + HST |
All Registrants |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
1.00 |
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