international law exercise and need a sample draft to help me learn. The Employer is

international law exercise and need a sample draft to help me learn.

The Employer is in a hurry to start works on site and wishes to consider a letter of intent. Is there a problem in the issue of a Letter of Intent as a provisional contract? Word limit is 500 words +/- 10%
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WESTMINSTER BUSINESS SCHOOLSCHOOL OF APPLIED MANAGEMENTModule Title: Project Procurement, Management & Law (Management 3)Module Code: 5PJMN001WAssessment title: Coursework 2Assessment weighting: 50%Assessment deadline: Thursday 5th January 2023 13:00hrsSemester 1, 2022/2023Assessment Brief
The AssessmentPart 2 coursework comprises four exercises based on course material to be submitted as one four-part document.These exercises will cover issues of law, procurement, company finance and project performance management. You should write in clear, concise and correct English. Remember to Spell check, Grammar check and Proof-read. Do not put far too many points into one paragraph. Keep the points separate, at the very least by using a new paragraph for each point. The essay should have a suitable structure and may follow the recommended structure:Title Page (state the title of the essay and the word count). Table of Contents Question i (maximum 500 words)Question ii maximum 500 words)Question iii (maximum 500 words)Question iv (maximum 500 words)Note – The word count limit excludes diagrams, references and appendices. The word count must be stated on the cover page.ReferencesQUESTION 1The Employer is in a hurry to start works on site and wishes to consider a letter of intent. Is there a problem in the issue of a Letter of Intent as a provisional contract? Word limit is 500 words +/- 10%(14 marks)QUESTION 2The contractor has gone into liquidation during construction and another contractor is needed to complete the project. The Managing Director of the original firm has now formed a new company and is asking to be considered for the completion work. Is that a problem? Word limit is 500 words +/-10%(12 marks)Page | 2
QUESTION 3Fig.1 (source Google Finance)KIER GROUP PLCa.Review the annual company accounts from Kier Group PLC (UK) dating from 2016 to 2021 (information available from Companies House). i.What trend is evident in company debt over this time? ii.What reason/reasons could there be for this?(4 marks)b.The recent company accounts make reference to ‘amortisation’ and ‘exceptional items’:i.Define/explain both these terms, and, ii.In what context might these terms apply to a construction business. (2 marks)c.Figure 1 shows the share price performance for Keir Group Plc over the past 5 years. In November 2018 the share price dropped significantly. Referring to expert commentary and news sources of the time, what company behaviour was the cause of this sudden drop?(4 marks)d.What factors are keeping Kier Group PLC’s current share price relatively low and what, in your opinion, could this organisations leadership do to improve it?(2 marks)Total word count for this part must not exceed 500 words (+/- 10%)QUESTION 4Page | 3
Scenario – Global University London – Council Room Refurbishment Global University London (GUL) comprises over 400 buildings, mainly in around the Kings Cross and St Pancras areas of London but also across the rest of the capital city and the UK. These buildings meet a range of needs including research, teaching and learning, administration and student accommodation. Focusing on delivering world class teaching and research, the University has nearly 45,000 students and 15,000 members of staff.The University wishes to upgrade the Council Room. The Council Room is where key meetings of the senior management team and prestigious persons take place. The University has just approved this refurbishment project with a budget of £495,000. The university is interested in improving its reputation in the sustainability of its projects.Your work as a project manager for the client.The Director of Projects would like you to develop a reporting template that would be suitable for this project. If it is successful it will become the template used for project reporting across the University.TASKPrepare an organised list of items that should be included on a project report prepared by the project manager for the client for this project. You may find it useful to present this in diagram form, such as an example report template. (12 marks)Page | 4
The word limit is 500 words (+/- 10%).There is supplementary information on the following pagesSupplementary information about the Council Room ProjectPart 1 – ImagesFigure 1: What the Council room currently looks likeFigure 2: Artists impression of what the completed Council room will look likePage | 5
Part 2: Approved Proposal submitted to University1st September 2022GUL Estates – Council Room RefurbishmentSummary:The Council Room a GUL is used to hold high profile meetings with prestigious persons. The project is to refurbish the Council Room to a high standard to ensure that GUL committees, meetings and other events are able to take place in an appropriate environment commensurate with GUL’s standing as a world leading university. The benefits of this project – for which there was no funding allocated in the Capital Programme but an urgent need to undertake improvement works – are to provide GUL with substantially enhanced spaces to hold prestigious meetings.It is anticipated that the works will be completed by the end of March 2023.Prior Consideration: N/ATotal capital costs of project: £ 495,000Action required of CommitteeCommittee are asked to approve allocation of £495,000 to expedite the delivery of this capital project and include this project in reporting on the Capital Programme.Proponent / Author: Caroline Silver, Director of Capital Projects – GUL EstatesDecision of CommitteeApproved 1st September 2022[END OF EXERCISE 4]Page | 6
Assessment criteriaThe assessment criteria and weightings show you what is important in the assessment and how marks are shared across each criterion. When you are completing your assessment remember you need to fulfil the brief and the assessment criteria below. At the end of this document, we have provided you a more detailed marking grid, which describes both the expectation for each criterion and how marks would be awarded based upon performance.CriterionWeightingEvaluation of information- Understanding the full significance of all of the relevant information presented in the question/instruction. Demonstrating how the presented information can be used and contextualised in various ways to represent a project, business or legal scenario. The evaluation of the information provided should ‘paint a picture’ of any given situation with a view to help in the making a of an executive decision or a judgement. 30%Understanding of key issues-Demonstrating knowledge of how the application of management principles, contract and company law are relevant to current issues common to, or widespread in, the construction industry.25%Understanding the purpose of the exercise – Demonstrating an understanding about the relevance and purpose of the exercise, why the exercise is important and how it could influence the future behaviour of an organisation.25%Presentation – Well presented no spelling mistakes and written in a succinct, concise and clear way. Good Grammar. Document well-structured and simple to follow.10%Referencing- Good referencing throughout to support work. Harvard style referencing.10%The University has arrangements for marking, internal moderation and external scrutiny. Further information can be found in Section 12 of the Handbook of Academic Regulations, westminster.ac.uk/study/current-students/resources/academic-regulations Page | 7
Anonymous markingDo NOT include your name or student number within the file name or anywhere within your submission. The submission will be subject to anonymous marking. Having logged into blackboard the system will record your details anonymously and tutors will only see your name after the entire submission has been assessed and provisional marks have been released to all students at the same time. Referencing requirements for the assessmentStatements, assertions and ideas made in coursework should be supported by citing relevant sources. Sources cited in the text should be listed at the end of the assignment in a reference list. Any material that you read but do not cite in the report should go into a separate bibliography. Unless explicitly stated otherwise by the module teaching team, all Referencing should be in the Cite Them Right (CTR) Harvard format. You can find further guidance available at Cite Them Right Online (login via University of Westminster) or on the library webpages.Page | 8
The deadline and submitting your coursework – checksUnless indicated otherwise, coursework is submitted via Blackboard. The deadline for this assessment is Thursday 5th January 2023 at 1300. This means that your work should be fully uploaded before 1300. The University would treat your submission as late, if your work has not been fully uploaded and stored on the server before 1300. In order to avoid your submission being marked as late, you should upload your work as soon as possible before the deadline and must not wait until or just before the deadline to start uploading your work.At busy times the coursework submission process may run slowly. To ensure that your submission is not recorded as a late submission, avoid submitting very close to the deadline. To submit your assignment:1.Log on to Blackboard at http://learning.westminster.ac.uk ; 2.Go to the Blackboard site for this module; 3.Click on the ‘Submit assessment’ link in the navigation menu 4.Click on the link for the assessment; 5.Follow the instructions, ensuring that you have selected the correct file to upload.REMEMBERIt is a requirement that you submit your work in this way. All coursework must be uploaded by 13:00 (UK Time on the due date).If you submit your assessment late but within 24 hours or one ‘working’ day of the specified deadline, 10% of the overall marks available for that assessment will be deducted as a penalty for late submission, except for work which is marked in the marginal pass rate range (9% above the pass mark) and in this case the mark would be capped at the pass mark.If you submit your coursework more than 24 hours after the specified deadline you will be given a mark of zero for the work in question.Difficulties in submitting assignments on timeIf you have difficulties for reasons beyond your control (e.g. serious illness, family problems etc.) that prevent you from submitting the assessment, make sure you apply to the Mitigating Circumstances board with evidence to support your claim as soon as possible. Further details can be found on the following URL: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/guides-and-policies/assessment-guidelines/mitigating-circumstances-claimsIf you are unsure about the above information, you should seek academic support from your module leader, personal tutor or your course leader. You will find details of your module leader in this module’s handbook and you can find the name of your course leader and personal tutor from your “My Student Records” page via the University’s student portal.Page | 9
ACADEMIC SUPPORT & FEEDBACK ARRANGEMENTS For this assessment there will be an opportunity for an academic support & feedback drop-in session, where you will receive support and feedback on your assessment prior to submission. Further details are provided in the module handbook. There will also be opportunities to receive academic support during lectures through allocated questions and answers sessions and through the discussion board on the module blackboard site.After submission, summative feedback will be provided online via blackboard, where feedback takes the form of an indication of performance on the provided making grid. You will also receive a number on key points of strength, weakness and academic skills you can improve upon. We aim to provide you this feedback within 15 working days and after the feedback has been released online there will also be an opportunity to meet with marker for oral feedback [GIVE DATE OF FEEDBACK RETURN]. If you are unsure about how to see your provisional marks and feedback, the following LINK will explain how you cand do this – https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/blackboardhelp/marks-and-feedback/ Academic integrityWhat you submit for assessment must be your own current work. It will automatically be scanned through a text matching system to check for possible plagiarism.Do not reuse material from other assessments that you may have completed on other modules. Collusion with other students (except when working in groups), recycling previous assignments (unless this is explicitly allowed by the module leader) and/or plagiarism (copying) of other sources all are offences and are dealt with accordingly. If you are not sure about this, then speak to your class leader.University of Westminster Quality & Standards statementPlagiarism is a particular form of cheating. Plagiarism must be avoided at all costs and students who break the rules, however innocently, will be penalized. It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand correct referencing practices. As a University level student, you are expected to use appropriate references and keep carefully detailed notes of all your sources of material, including any material downloaded from the www.Plagiarism is defined as submission for assessment of material (written, visual or oral) originally produced by another person or persons, without acknowledgement, in such a way that the work could be assumed to be your own. Plagiarism may involve the unattributed use of another person’s work, ideas, opinions, theory, facts, statistics, graphs, models, paintings, performance, computer code, drawings, quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words, or paraphrases of another person’s spoken or written words.Plagiarism covers both direct copying and copying or paraphrasing with only minor adjustments:a direct quotation from a text must be indicated by the use of quotation marks (or an indented paragraph in italics for a substantive section) and the source of the quote (title, author, page number and date of publication) provided;a paraphrased summary must be indicated by attribution of the author, date and source of the material including page numbers for the section(s) which have been summarized. Page | 10
Criteria & weighting0 – 29%Fail30-39%Marginal fail40-49%Pass50-59%Good60-69%Very good70%+ExcellentEvaluation of information (30%)No evaluation of any of the information presented. No reference information presentedNo consideration of information presented.Reference to irrelevant information.Poor evaluation of the information.Evaluation of some of the information but this is poorly understood and either not related to or poorly related to the exercise.Consideration of factors/information provided is inadequate.Weak levels of analysis and critical evaluation.Unsatisfactory evaluation of the information provided in the question.Very basic evaluation of the information provided.Demonstration of understanding of some of the information presented in the question.Demonstration of correct use and interpretation of some of the information presented in the questionAdequate recognition, understanding of the information provided.Demonstrates a good ability to utilise the information provided to work towards a solutionDemonstration of understanding of some of the information presented in the question.Demonstration of correct use and in-depth interpretation of some of the information presented in the questionBasic recognition, understanding of the information providedDemonstrates a very good ability to utilise the information provided to work towards a solutionDemonstration of in-depth understanding of much of the information presented in the question.Demonstration of correct use and interpretation of all of the information presented in the question to an in-depth, fundamental level.Very good recognition, understanding of the information provided Demonstrate an excellent ability to utilise the information provided to work towards a solutionFull & complete recognition, understanding and evaluation of the information provided.The breadth, depth and integration of the information provided with knowledge is outstanding.Demonstration of a high degree of understanding of all of the information presented in the question.Demonstration of excellent use and interpretation of all of the information presented in the question and presentation of conclusions to a level exceeding the standard of the module.Understanding the Key Issues (25%)No indication of the key issue.Incorrect understanding of the issue of the exercise.Lacks analysis, critical evaluation. Research into topic is inadequate.Poor discussion of what key issue or issues may be pertinent to the exercise.Adequate evidence of understanding of the key issues. Adequate demonstration of critical thought.Some evidence of analytical discussion of the key issue.Good understanding of the key issues.Demonstration of good critical thought.Good analytical discussion of the key issue in the context of the wider construction industry.Very good understanding of the key issues.Demonstration of very good critical thought.Very good analytical discussion of the key issue in the context of the wider construction industry.Excellent understanding of the key issues.Demonstration of advanced critical thought. Excellent analytical discussion of the key issue in the wider context of the construction industry.Understanding the purpose No indication of the purpose or reason for of the exercise. Some understanding demonstrated as to the Adequate understanding Good understanding demonstrated as to the Very good understanding demonstrated as to the Fundamental understanding demonstrated as to the relevance of the exercise in Page | 11
of the exercise (25%)Contains literature irrelevant to the topic. relevance of the exercise to an organisation.demonstrated as to the relevance of the exercise in the context of helping an organisation to shape its future behaviour.relevance of the exercise in the context of helping an organisation to shape its future behaviour.relevance of the exercise in the context of helping an organisation to shape its future behaviour. the context of helping an organisation to shape its future behaviour.Accurate, in-depth conclusions.Referencing (10%)No references. Major mistakes in referencing or major references missing.Minor mistakes or inconsistencies in referencing.Appropriate referencing, minor mistakes.Referencing accurate.All referencing accurate.Presentation(10%)Very poor structure with illogical sections/signposting. Essay is poorly written and requires proof reading. Essay is not succinct and concise.Poor essay structure. Writing style is muddled and not always clear. Standard of proof-reading needs improving, as essay has many errors. Essay is not succinct and concise.Basic structure. Writing style is not always clear. Standard of proof-reading needs improving, as essay has a number of errors. Essay is not succinct and concise.Good presentation and structureof the essay with flowing sections. Writing is mainly clear, succinct and concise. Good standard of proof reading butwith some errors.Very good presentation and structure of the essay with flowing sections. Succinct and concise. Fluent academic writing style. Very good standard of proof reading with very few errors.Excellent presentation and structure of the essay with flowing sections. Succinct and concise.Fluent and articulate academic writing style. Excellent standard of proof reading with no or minor errorsPage | 12