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Like all professions globally, Professional Engineers (PE), Land Surveyors and Geologists are required to always maintain the highest ethical standards and are mandated to complete ethics training as part of a new license application, or renewal.

Whilst there are alternative routes to complete ethics training, the following regulators have assessed the Bid Safeguarding Academy (BSA) and deemed it to comply with your ethics requirements for 2 hours of PDC/CDH credits.

The Nevada board of Engineers and Land Surveyors – NVBPELS
The North Carolina Board for Engineers and Surveyors – NCBELS

In addition, Ludian have been approved as Continuing Professional Competency (CPC) education providers by:

New York State Board for Engineering, Land Surveying & Geology
New Jersey State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

We will add to the list above as we continue our ongoing enrollment with other State Boards and Regulators.

If you are an Engineer, land Surveyor or geologist, we have created a dedicated section for you in the tab above. If you are not, please continue reading below as many professions are required to complete Continuing Professional Competency (CPC) as part of their licensing or professional membership renewal or registration and most organizations have implemented ethics training for their staff and suppliers.

Organizations across the world, in all market sectors, use the Tender/Bid process to place contracts.
Regardless of contract value, market sector or geographical location, the bid process is open to manipulation, error, and corrupt practices, including bribery, during the planning, evaluation and approval stages. If successful, even once, this can lead to devastating and long term financial, operational and reputational harm. Often financial losses are not fully recovered, if at all.

The BSA is applicable to all market sectors globally that use the bid or tender process to award contracts. The BSA is a training and education resource platform designed to assist organizations, and their suppliers to identify bid corruption quicker and identify more bid corruption events. Early reporting = Early detection = Less financial losses, and reduces the risk of reputational damage, delays and increases cost control and good governance within the bid or tender management process.

Why is the BSA approach new?

So, you may be thinking, we already have existing anti-corruption strategies, whistle blowing policies and training programs in place, so why would I consider implementing the BSA across my organization? Bid corruption risk is not new, so why is the BSA approach different?

The BSA is more than just a bid corruption awareness training course. Upon completion, users gain access to the Bid Corruption Red Flags Library, featuring 260+ bid corruption red flags, accessible on PCs, phones, tablets, and other mobile devices.

Why is this important?

Bid corruption is often identified after contract award during audit and investigation. Often, this is too late, any damage has already happened. Our strategic approach is to increase bid corruption prevention prior to bid launch or contract award.

Here is how.

Those involved in the bid planning and approval process can access the red flags library remotely to assist them in identifying bid corruption risks that may occur in each stage of the bid process so these can be ‘designed out’ prior to launching the bid process.

This is also an important tool for bid evaluation teams. By accessing the library online remotely during the evaluation process, teams will be able to identify bid corruption risks in each stage of the bid process and report any potential red flags immediately prior to contract award recommendation.

During contract award and amendment approval, board members can look up any red flags they may see and decide if further review is required prior to contract award.

Suppliers are an important part of your bid anti-corruption risk management strategy. By training them, in multiple languages if required, before registration and submitting a bid helps communicate your anti-bid corruption approach early, assists them in strengthening their own risk management practices, and improves risk identification and reporting across your supplier database.

Investigators, auditors and those involved in risk management can use the BSA and the red flags library to assess if a contract award followed the published bid processes, whilst looking for signing of manipulation in the bid planning, evaluation and contract award stages.

The BSA is interactive and is unique in its design and implementation. This new approach has led to successful copyright and trademarking filing in multiple jurisdictions.

The BSA can be customized

We know a one size approach to bid corruption risk management does not fit every organization. Every organization uses different terminology and has different processes.

We have two versions of the BSA, one uses Bid terminology and the second uses the term ‘Tender’.

For an organization license, we can host the BSA on our platform or seamlessly transfer it to yours.

Prior to hosting or transfer, we will work with you to ensure the terminology is line with your current bid or tender processes and we can also include any company policies you require such as whistleblowing, ethics, compliance into the course.

The BSA can be translated into multiple languages if needed and takes approximately two hours to complete. It features bookmarking, allowing you to progress at your own pace. Upon completion, you can download a personalized certificate.

If you would like to know more about the BSA or discuss possible implementation, please contact us on sales@bidethics.com

If you are a regulator representing a national sector, please contact us to explore setting up a dedicated national platform if needed.

Who would benefit from the BSA

An example of people who would benefit from completing the BSA and who have an important role in combatting bid corruption are listed below:
Are you involved in?
Bid planning and Evaluation

Cost estimates and project design, product specification
Designing bid/tender evaluation plans (TEP)
Defining and setting evaluation % scoring criteria
Supplier pass / fail criteria
Preparing supplier bid lists, or supplier prequalification
Preparation of invitation to tender (ITT)
Technical / Commercial evaluation
Defining contract terms and conditions (Ts&Cs)
Defining staff requirements

Bid approval and Results Approval

Single source / no bid contract awards submission
TEP and award bid criteria
Technical / Commercial evaluation results
Contract awards, variations, amendments, change orders or emergency works
Have delegated procurement or contract authority/approval at any level
Quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC)
Project or product design plans

Risk Management & Investigations

Country corruption assessments
Project risk management
Developing or evaluating Contracting and procurement policies and tender procedures
Supply chain compliance
Supply chain corruption audit
Supplier fraud risk management
Compliance, audit, legal, external legal advisors, CPA’s and those involved in Investigating ongoing or historical bid corruption

Suppliers

Demonstrate to your clients that you consider bid corruption as a risk within your organization
Are you on a disbarred / restricted supplier list: The BSA can be used to demonstrate that you have taken proactive steps to reinforce your internal bid compliance program