Effective communication is essential in partnerships to ensure alignment on objectives, progress updates, and issue resolution. Regular communication builds trust and fosters collaboration, leading to successful outcomes.

Tim should do an audit. P.71 of the textbook says "to ensure that a procurement department is achieving value for money, an audit should be undertaken"

This Question: refers to
Porter's Value Chain (p.35). There's a couple of questions on this in the exam so try to learn it. Primary activities are; inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, after sales- service

The correct answer is 'Yes- IPR is a valid concern for both parties but will survive the termination of the agreement' (p.112). See the section on 'Legal considerations' in chapter 2.4

Internal stakeholders are those who work within the business so include the legal department, employees and end-users. End-users mean those people and departments who will be using the product or service. For example if Gabriel is procuring new software- an end-user would be anyone who would be using that software (whether they're employees, volunteers or agencies). CIPS outlines types of stakeholders on p.64