Muscat Municipality, Department of Community Services have proposed a cultural centre/library, to be constructed on derelict council owned land near the centre of Muscat to replace the current inadequate library provision. The wish of the Director of Community Services is to provide a facility for adults, juniors and teenagers with lending of books, cassettes, compact discs, videos, computer software, talking books and books in large print. Daily newspapers and magazines will be available in a comfortable seating area with a franchised coffee vending outlet. Games consoles and internet accessible computers will be provided in two rooms (one room for play and one room for study). A flexible space will accommodate open learning and Chamber of Commerce and other meetings. A display area will accommodate temporary cultural displays and large plasma display screens will advertise community events. The library shop will supply any book in print, videos and DVD's with a target 10% discount on the normal retail price. The library shop will stock a range of local history publications, postcards, maps, stamps, magnifying sheets, greetings cards, wall charts and educational books.

As a consultant project manager write a report to the Assistant Director of Community Services, the nominated project sponsor of the project. The report should:

1. Explain the concept of value for money in the context of public sector procurement

2. Analyse comparatively the process of achieving value for money in public sector construction procurement in Oman and the UK

3. Describe briefly the opportunities for value management in the strategic and project briefing of a project to be procured as a design and build project.

4. Consider those likely to be involved in the strategic briefing workshop and the project briefing workshop.

Maximum 3000 words.

1. The report should NOT be an assembly of referenced material from which the reader may infer an answer. Referenced material should be used to reinforce or substantiate a point being made in the report. The explanations given should be explicit and focused on the case study problem. Material should be synthesised in the context of the case study and recommendations given.

2. Use bullet lists carefully. Do not end a section within the report or even the report itself with a bulleted list. Lists must always be rounded off with a sentence or paragraph summarising the final point of that section.

3. Every report should have a conclusion and every report of this nature should have recommendations. The Senior Property Officer will be seeking assistance from the expert, the project manager, on the route to take with regard to this project.

4. Read over the report before submission.

5. Check your reports for no page numbers, obvious spelling mistakes and font changes (a classic sign of block copying).

7. If appendices have been included then they should be referred to in the text. It is not for the reader to discover them and wonder at their relevance.

8. Do not list references that have not been referred to in the text. Do not give references in the text which are not referenced in the References.

9. All sections should be attempted

Guidelines for Risk & Value Management Coursework
1. Introduction
 A general introduction on value management into 3 to 4 lines
 Here to need describe about the project of Muscat Municipality a bit.
 A short summary of the report inside covered

2. Critical Analysis
 First give the definitions like "What is Value for Money" with the literature reference quoted.
 Explain the Vale for Money into the context of Public Sector Procurement.
 And how to attain that to achieve the Value management.

3. Comparison
 First write both countries public sector construction procurement method followed.
 And compare both procurement methods. I mean the how it operates and the status of those countries construction procurement methods
4. Procured as a design and build project
 The available opportunities for VM at the stages of Strategic & Project Briefing, when the DB procurement is adopted
 How these available opportunities can be applied into the Muscat Municipality community project to achieve the VM at the stages of Strategic & Project Briefing, by adopting the DB procurement method.
5. Strategic & Project Briefing
 Now implement those workshop approaches in to the Muscat Municipality community project to achieve the VM or VMF at the stages of Strategic & Project Briefing workshop.
 What are the advantages of doing so

6. Recommendations:
Write your recommendations here for Muscat Municipality to adopt those steps to be effective.

7. Conclusions:
 Finally end the report with strong statement and the limitations of the coursework if any.